Go to a filthy puddle',

Back to John Flavel's "The Method of Grace"

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How unreasonable and wholly inexcusable in believers 
is the sin of backsliding from Christ. Have you found 
rest in Him, when you could not find it in any other? 
Did He receive you, and give peace to your soul when 
all other persons and things were physicians of no value? 
And will you after this backslide from Him? O what 
madness! No man in his right mind would leave the 
pure, cold, refreshing stream of a crystal fountain—to 
go to a filthy puddle or an empty cistern! Such are 
the best enjoyments of this world in comparison with 
Jesus Christ.