Leanness Of Body And Soul

The Love Of God Is Like Himself – Equal, Constant, Not Capable Of Augmentation Or Diminution; Our Love Is Like Ourselves – Unequal, Increasing, Waning, Growing, Declining. His, Like The Sun, Always The Same In Its Light, Though A Cloud May Sometimes Interpose; Ours, As The Moon, Has Its Enlargements And Straightenings.

Sin Also Carries On Its War By Entangling The Affections And Drawing Them Into An Alliance Against The Mind. Grace May Be Enthroned In The Mind, But If Sin Controls The Affections, It Has Seized A Fort From Which It Will Continually Assault The Soul. Hence, As We Shall See, Mortification Is Chiefly Directed To Take Place Upon The Affections.

A Natural Man Hath No Such Thing As Free-will At All, If You Take It For A Power Of Doing That Which Is Good And Well-pleasing Unto God In Things Spiritual.

Meditate On The Word In The Word.

It Is Often Those Who Are Despised And Trampled On That Bear Up The Weight Of A Whole Nation.