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Resolved, To Ask Myself At The End Of Every Day, Week, Month And Year, Wherein I Could Possibly In Any Respect Have Done Better.

What Self-righteous Persons Take To Themselves, Is The Same Work That Christ Was Engaged In When He Was In His Agony And Bloody Sweat, And When He Died On The Cross, Which Was The Greatest Thing That Ever The Eyes Of Angels Beheld. Christ Could Accomplish Other Parts Of This Work Without Cost; But This Part Cost Him His Life, As Well As Innumerable Pains And Labors. Yet This Is The Part Which Self-righteous Persons Go About To Accomplish For Themselves.

Love Is No Ingredient In A Merely Speculative Faith, But It Is The Life And Soul Of A Practical Faith.

The Deceitfulness Of The Heart Of Man Appears In No One Thing So Much As This Of Spiritual Pride And Self-righteousness. The Subtlety Of Satan Appears In Its Height, In His Managing Persons With Respect To This Sin. And Perhaps One Reason May Be That Here He Has Most Experience; He Knows The Way Of Its Coming In; He Is Acquainted With The Secret Springs Of It: It Was His Own Sin. Experience Gives Vast Advantage In Leading Souls, Either In Good Or Evil.

True Boldness For Christ Transcends All, It Is Indifference To The Displeasure Of Either Friends Or Foes. Boldness Enables Christians To Forsake All Rather Than Christ, And To Prefer To Offend All Rather Than To Offend Him.