Until we taste the bitterness of our own misery, we will never relish the sweetness of God's mercy. Until we see how foul our sins have made us, we will never pay our tribute of praise to Christ for washing us.
Outward acts are most scandalous among men, but inward lusts are most atrocious before God!
Reader! if you would know the heart of your sin then you must know the sins of your heart! These streams of defilement which appear in your life do but show what a fountain of wickedness there is in your heart! Even the "thought of foolishness is sin!" There is no sin so little as not to kindle an eternal fire!
"When sin has conceived it brings forth death!"
Sin's first-born is death and its last-born is hell.
[William Secker]
Matthew 15:19-20 ... For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
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