Sin (Resisting)
You must part with your sins or your soul; spare but one sin and God will not spare you. Your sins must die or you must die for them. [ASGTH]
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Forsake your sins, or you cannot find mercy. You cannot be married to Christ except you be divorced from sin. [ASGTH]
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Where there is allowance of ourselves in any sinful lust, it is a sign the keys were never given up to Christ to rule us. [TBR]
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Those who are aware of a weakening of their experience of grace themselves must redouble their efforts in the duties of mortification and spiritual obedience, but take care that what you do is what God has appointed, and that how you do it is guided and directed by Scripture. [TGOC]
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Men must not seek to resist Satan’s craft with craft, but by open defiance. [PRASD]
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The true penitent flies from sin as Moses did from the serpent. [TDOR]
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Three men, asking one another what made them leave sin: one says, I think of the joys of heaven; another, I think of the torments of hell; but the third, I think of the love of God, and that makes me forsake it. How shall I offend the God of love? [TDOR]
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It is very rare that God doth leave his beloved ones frequently to relapse into one and the same gross sin. [PRASD]
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True leaving of sin is when the acts of sin cease from the infusion of a principle of grace, as the air ceases to be dark from the infusion of light. [TDOR]
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He that would not be burnt, must dread the fire; he that would not hear the bell, must not meddle with the rope. [PRASD]