Deception
God hath nowhere in the Scripture required any worthiness in the creature before believing in Christ… None ever received Christ, embraced Christ, and obtained mercy and pardon from Christ, but unworthy souls… If the soul will keep off from Christ till it be worthy, it will never close with Christ, it will never embrace Christ. [PRASD]
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Let us not think we may treat the Gospel as we please and yet be safe. [JJTP]
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The wages that sin bargains to give the sinner are, life, pleasure, and profit; but the wages it pays him are, death, torment, and destruction. He that would understand the falsehood and deceit of sin must compare its promises and its payments together. [ROOS]
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Many will be saved and more perhaps be lost contrary to the judgments formed of them by their neighbours. But more will be saved and more will be lost contrary to the opinions they had formed of themselves. [ROOS]
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Men may be slaves … for the devil and not know it; nay, they may please themselves in thoughts of liberty! [ASGTH]
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How many professing Christians are there with whom the world has more of their hearts and affections than Christ, ‘who mind earthly things’, and thereby are evidently after the flesh, and likely to end in destruction. [ASGTH]
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Multitudes perish by the hand of some secret sin, that is not only hidden from others, but from lack of observing their own hearts, is hidden even from themselves. [ASGTH]
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To hope that Christ will save you while unconverted, is to hope that Christ will prove false to His trust. [ASGTH]
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When will men learn that concealment is not innocence? We may hide our sins from our own eyes, but until God casts them all behind his back they may rise up at any moment and overwhelm us. [JJTP]
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Every self-seeker is a self-tormentor, a self-destroyer; he carries a hell, an executioner in his own bosom. [PRASD]