What a battlefield is the heart',

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I have so much opposition within, so many 
temptations, lusts, and follies; so many 
snares and besetments; and a vile heart, 
dabbling in all carnality and filth. 

I am indeed exercised "by sin and grace." 

Sin or grace seems continually uppermost; 
striving and lusting against one another. 
What . . .
listings, sorrowing;
falling, risings;
defeats, and victories. 

What a battlefield is the heart, and there 
the fight is lost and won. When sin prevails, 
mourning over its wounds and slaughter.
When grace and godly fear beat back 
temptation, a softening into gratitude.

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