"Hear
counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy
latter end." -Proverbs
19:20 [KJV]
What
lessons we need day by day to teach us anything aright, and how it is
for the most part "line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.”
O what slow learners, what dull, forgetful scholars, what
ignoramuses, what stupid blockheads, what stubborn pupils! Surely no
scholar at a school, old or young, could learn so little of natural
things as we seem to have learnt of spiritual things after so many
years' instruction, so many chapters read, so many sermons heard, so
many prayers put up, so much talking about religion.
How
small, how weak is the amount of grace compared with all we have read
and heard and talked about. But it is a mercy that the Lord saves
whom He will save, and that we are saved by free grace,
and free grace alone, through the blood and righteousness of the Son
of God. "He of God is made
unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption"
so that if we have Him we have everything, and if we have Him not we
have nothing. Where these things are felt they will cause exercise of
soul, with many prayers and supplications to the God of all our
mercies; and all this will strip and empty us of that light,
superficial, and flimsy profession which seems so current in our day.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
Ref:
Isaiah 28:10 and I
Corinthians 1:27-31 [KJV]
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