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Little else than ignorance & folly!

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Our cobweb garment of creature righteousness must be taken from us! We need to be stripped of those 'filthy rags' which cannot shield us from the eye of omniscient Justice.

When the corruptions of our heart are laid bare—when sin is allowed to come in like a flood, so as to sweep away all those 'dreams of fleshly holiness and creature perfection'—when we are put into Satan's sieve and have our religion shaken backwards and forwards until every sound grain seems gone, and nothing rises to the top but the chaff which the wind blows away.

When the Lord puts the soul into the furnace of affliction, and nothing comes to the surface but the dross and scum which are taken away by the Refiner—then we lose this 'fleshly holiness' that we once so dearly prized—and so ardently and anxiously longed to obtain.

It is lost, utterly lost, when the Lord gives us a sight of what we are, and gives us a glimpse of what He is!