SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS.

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It is a terrible stroke to nature to think of being stripped of all, and not to have a rag of duty or selfrighteousness left to look at.-Wilcox.

High professor-despise not weak saints; thou mayest come to wish to be in the condition of the meanest of them.-Wilcox.

The honey that you suck from your own righteousness will turn into gall; and the light which you take from this, to walk by, will darken into black night upon the soul. Wilcox.

I am sure when the Master is near His coming it were safe for us to write over a new copy of our accounts, of the sins of nature, childhood, youth, riper years, and old age. What if Christ have another written representation of me than I have of myself! Sure His is right, and if it contradict my misstating and sinfully erroneous account, ah! where am I then ?-Rutherford.

We are apt to set our clock before God's dial, and then to quarrel because they do not agree; but the Lord is a God of judgment, and it is fit we should wait for Him.Henry.

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SHORTNESS OF LIFE.

SHORTNESS OF LIFE.

"As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth."—Psalms.

WHEN

THEN we remember how short life is, by what a frail tenure we possess it; that we know not what a day or an hour may bring forth; that in this very limited season our eternal salvation must be secured; it is surely impossible for us to give the least indulgence to a spirit of procrastination.-T. Russell.

SIN.

"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."-St. John.

IN keeps no sabbaths.-Adam.

SIN

It is a stream that will carry down the sinner till he be swallowed up in an ocean of wrath.-Boston.

Sin is the knife that stabbed Christ to the heart-this shed His blood. Surely you can never make light of that which lay so heavy upon the soul and body of Jesus Christ.-Flavel.

Sin is the only thing which God hates, and almost the only thing that man loves.-Adam.

No sin can be little, because there is no little God to sin against.-Brooks.

That which first overcomes a man is the last thing he overcomes.-St. Augustine.

What is rebellion in the state to rebellion against God?-Adam.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I observe there is evil, and that there is a way to escape it, and with this I begin and end.-Newton.

There is nothing got by striving against God Almighty, for He will either break the heart or break the neck of those that contend with Him-will bring them either to repentance or ruin.-Henry.

When youth has come to its fairest bloom, then the devil and the lusts of a deceiving world and sin are upon horseback, and follow with up-sails.—Rutherford.

Satan as a master is bad, his work much worse, and his wages worst of all.—Anon.

Sin is a base act of ingratitude against all the favours we have received of God. It is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, but worst of all in the heart and life; and for every drop of sin in the life there is an ocean in the heart.-Anon.

It is impossible that your idol sins and ye can go to heaven together; and that they who will not part with these cannot indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.-Rutherford.

The wages that sin bargains for with the sinner are life, pleasure, and profit; but the wages it pays him with are death, torment, and destruction. He that would understand the falsehood and deceit of sin must compare its promises and its payments together.-South.

Go, sin; and, O Lord, do Thou speak it this day into my heart! Go for ever, thou rebel to God, thou crucifier of Christ, thou griever of the Spirit, thou curse of the earth, thou poison in my blood, thou plague of my soul, and bane of all my happiness.—Adam.

As what goes up a vapour comes down a shower, so what goes up sin, if not repented of, will come down wrath.-Henry.

He that will not flee from the occasions and allurements of sin, though they may seem never so pleasant to the eye, or sweet to the taste, shall find them in the end to be more sharp than vinegar, more bitter than wormwood, more deadly than poison.-Brooks.

When we think of death, a thousand sins we have trod as worms beneath our feet rise up against us like flaming serpents. Scott.

My cursed sins put the Lord of life to a cruel death. When my Lord was in the garden, no Judas nor Pilate, no Jew nor Gentile, was there to cause His amazing horror f soul and fearful sweat of blood. But, oh! my unbelief, my pride, my carnality, my hypocrisy, and other sins