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Man's religion is to build up the creature. God's religion is to throw the creature down in the dust of self-abasement, and to glorify Christ. | Man's religion is to build up the creature. God's religion is to throw the creature down in the dust of self-abasement, and to glorify Christ. | ||
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|[[A mystery to yourself]]<br> | |[[A mystery to yourself]]<br> | ||
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[[Treasure in earthen vessels]]<br> | [[Treasure in earthen vessels]]<br> | ||
[[Trials, temptations, stripping, emptying]]<br> | [[Trials, temptations, stripping, emptying]]<br> | ||
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|[[No fear!]]<br> | |[[No fear!]]<br> | ||
[[These difficulties!]]<br> | [[These difficulties!]]<br> | ||
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[[Inward conflicts]]<br> | [[Inward conflicts]]<br> | ||
[[Wounds, bruises, putrefying sores]]<br> | [[Wounds, bruises, putrefying sores]]<br> | ||
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|[[The wilderness wanderer]]<br> | |[[The wilderness wanderer]]<br> | ||
[[Temptation]]<br> | [[Temptation]]<br> | ||
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[[This wily devil!]]<br> | [[This wily devil!]]<br> | ||
[[To bathe in the ocean of endless bliss!]]<br> | [[To bathe in the ocean of endless bliss!]]<br> | ||
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|[[The King in His beauty]]<br> | |[[The King in His beauty]]<br> | ||
[[Can the Ethiopian change his skin?]]<br> | [[Can the Ethiopian change his skin?]]<br> | ||
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[[Two kinds of repentance]]<br> | [[Two kinds of repentance]]<br> | ||
[[Have we nothing to give to Christ?]]<br> | [[Have we nothing to give to Christ?]]<br> | ||
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|[[Suffering]]<br> | |[[Suffering]]<br> | ||
[[In this scene of confusion & distraction]]<br> | [[In this scene of confusion & distraction]]<br> | ||
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[[What are we, when we have no trials?]]<br> | [[What are we, when we have no trials?]]<br> | ||
[[Spiritual poverty]]<br> | [[Spiritual poverty]]<br> | ||
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|[[The religion of a dead professor]]<br> | |[[The religion of a dead professor]]<br> | ||
[[Have we not leaned upon a thousand things?]]<br> | [[Have we not leaned upon a thousand things?]]<br> | ||
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[[The penetrating light of the spirit]]<br> | [[The penetrating light of the spirit]]<br> | ||
[[All true religion]]<br> | [[All true religion]]<br> | ||
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|[[The regenerating operations of the Holy Spirit]]<br> | |[[The regenerating operations of the Holy Spirit]]<br> | ||
[[This hard school of painful experience]]<br> | [[This hard school of painful experience]]<br> | ||
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[[Entangled, perplexed & distressed]]<br> | [[Entangled, perplexed & distressed]]<br> | ||
[[Lifeless, barren head knowledge]]<br> | [[Lifeless, barren head knowledge]]<br> | ||
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|[[Poor in spirit]]<br> | |[[Poor in spirit]]<br> | ||
[[Utter fools!]]<br> | [[Utter fools!]]<br> | ||
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[[A spirit of delusion]]<br> | [[A spirit of delusion]]<br> | ||
[[Husks which the swine eat]]<br> | [[Husks which the swine eat]]<br> | ||
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|[[Then they cried]]<br> | |[[Then they cried]]<br> | ||
[[O what painful work it is!]]<br> | [[O what painful work it is!]]<br> | ||
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Accepted!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Blundering & stumbling on in darkness]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[When you are in the wilderness]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | |[[O what crowds of pitiable objects]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Trouble, sorrow & affliction]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[From a burning hell—to a blissful heaven!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Our own wisdom, righteousness & strength]]<br> |
+ | [[Oh! Sweet grace, blessed grace!]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Dying]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Which is better?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[There must be continual trials]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Personal, spiritual, experimental knowledge]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Help from the sanctuary]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[Holy wrestling]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A disciple of Jesus]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Sovereign, supreme disposal]]<br> | ||
+ | [[You must not love one of these glittering baubles]]<br> | ||
+ | [[One unmingled scene of happiness & pleasure]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[The rod was dipped in love]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The best teacher]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Buried in the grave of carnality & worldliness]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A solitary drop of this holy anointing oil]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Practical atheists]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Dead in sin]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Continual salvation]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The fatal mistake of thousands]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The great secret of vital godliness]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If the devil ever feels joy]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[Fear not!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The desire of our soul]]<br> | ||
+ | [[O Self! Self!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[That dear, idolized creature]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Unquenched and unquenchable!]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Crawl like a serpent, roar like a lion]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If you want to see what sin really is]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Hard-hearted, cold-blooded, wise-headed]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Our sanctuary]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Poor, miserable, paltry works of a polluted worm!]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Mere toys & baubles]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Heavenly dew]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Coming up from the wilderness]]<br> | ||
+ | [[When we gaze upon the lifeless corpse]]<br> | ||
+ | [[There, on the other side, is my solitary soul]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[Even your own relatives think you are almost insane]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Straight paths]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Have nothing to do with them]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The foulest filth under the cleanest cloak]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Familiarity with sacred things]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Pride, self-conceit & self-exaltation]]<br> | ||
+ | [[What? Will He forgive us all sins?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[This sacred anointing]]<br> | ||
+ | [[What makes the children of God so strange?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[With His stripes we are healed]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Strangle & suffocate it!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[They shall never perish!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[All things!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Bitten by this serpent's tooth]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[The sin of pride]]<br> | ||
+ | [[They need a mighty God]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The Lord sometimes flogs His children home!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Talk like an angel—and live like a devil]]<br> | ||
+ | [[This idol-making, idol-loving world]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Many hard lessons]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Were we left wholly in its hands!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Romantic dreams of pleasure & earthly joy?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The love of the truth]]<br> | ||
+ | [[These lovers of ours]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[It is in these storms]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The incredible greatness of His power]]<br> | ||
+ | [[His secret power & influence]]<br> | ||
+ | [[All iniquity]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If your flesh had its full swing]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[A coward's castle]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Some beloved idol?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[That monstrous creature within us!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The soul's natural element]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Godly sorrow]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[But our coward flesh shrinks from them!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The filthy holes & puddles in which it grovels]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The Lord's secret power in our souls]]<br> | ||
+ | [[God's house]]<br> | ||
+ | [[When the Holy Spirit preaches the gospel]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[We get entangled with some idol]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The sins & slips of the saints]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Experimental knowledge]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Friend, can you understand my riddle?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[My greatest enemy?]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[There are many plans in a man's heart]]<br> | ||
+ | [[All are more or less deeply infected with it]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Ministers are often desirous]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Super-abounding grace]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Job's religion]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[The way in which the Spirit of God works]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The world is passing away]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Weary]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Oh, how religious he once used to be!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[It is a creature of many lives!]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[The believer's chief troubles]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A religion that satisfies thousands]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Down they sink to the bottom!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Who can come out of the battle alive?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[God's mercy.]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[A flowery path?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Toys & playthings of the religious baby-house]]<br> | ||
+ | [[But oh, the struggle! Oh, the conflict!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A snake, a monkey, an onion, a bit of rag]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The mother & mistress of all the sins]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[I needed no monkish rules then]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The strong man sinks down into a babe!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Save me, and I shall be saved!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Crush its viper head with the heel of our boot!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[What a battlefield is the heart]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[How can he travel through this waste-howling wilderness?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If God left us for a single hour]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A worldly spirit will ever peep out]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Enticing words of man's wisdom]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A peculiar, indescribable, invincible power]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[The deep things of God]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The religionists of the day]]<br> | ||
+ | [[My leanness, my leanness!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Those poor stupid people!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We were not always a set of poor mopes]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[You were secretly lifted up with pride]]<br> | ||
+ | [[To walk after the flesh]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The very thought is appalling!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[I will give you rest]]<br> | ||
+ | [[That which is highly esteemed among men]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Invincibly & irresistibly drawn]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Woman's chief besetting sins]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Not your own!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Do you seek great things for yourself?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We would not be such muck-worms!]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[Tender mercies]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Can Christ love one like me?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A woman's best ornament]]<br> | ||
+ | [[O you filthy creature!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[You never knew what real happiness was!]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Were it no bigger than a child's doll]]<br> | ||
+ | [[All your filthiness]]<br> | ||
+ | [[What things were gain to me]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Looking down into a filthy pit!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The largest slice of the well-sugared cake]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Can they beat back this monster to his filthy den?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[When it comes in the guise of a friend]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Canaanitish idols & heathenish abominations]]<br> | ||
+ | [[This inward conflict]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Desperately wicked]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[So many truly sincere & religious people]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Sick of sin, sick of self, sick of the world]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A hundred doctrines floating in the head]]<br> | ||
+ | [[However low we may sink]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Nothing but a slave!]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[A glory, a beauty & a sweetness]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Having nothing—and yet possessing all things]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Riches, honours & comforts]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The continued teachings of the Spirit]]<br> | ||
+ | [[It will come in at every chink & crevice!]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[At last to cheat the devil!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Cursed is the man]]<br> | ||
+ | [[That hideous idol self in his little shrine]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Such a perpetual & unceasing conflict?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We need grace, free grace]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[We are not flogged into loving Him]]<br> | ||
+ | [[O what a company of lusts!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[As if this beautiful viper had no poison fang!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The very remedy for all the maladies which we groan under!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Weaned from feeding on husks & ashes]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[That secret loveliness]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Lord, I feel my own utter helplessness!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[O what a way of learning religion!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Wrought with divine power]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The more lovely does Jesus appear!]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[We bring affliction upon ourselves]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A religious animal]]<br> | ||
+ | [[What a contrast!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Sweet buy!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[God's perfect will]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[Which is the more obnoxious to God]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Five devil-isms!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[This is the struggle!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[It is I]]<br> | ||
+ | [[That sweet grace]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Slaves of Satan!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Trials, temptations, sorrows, perplexities]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Love not the world]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Paul's highest attainment]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Let God but take the cover off]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[When the cold winds are whistling over your grave]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The art of preaching]]<br> | ||
+ | [[My desire is]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A great & inestimable mercy]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Such monsters are more fit for a travelling circus]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[An apostolic face & a Judas heart]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A languishing body]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A painted bauble]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The religion which I want]]<br> | ||
+ | [[It will matter little when I lie in my coffin!]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[A little drop of purity in the midst of impurity]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If Mr. Pride gets a wound in the head]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Our greatest enemy]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The end will make amends for all!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We are no longer young]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[The afflictions of the ungodly]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Like a little child in the arms of eternal love]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The end of God in all His doings & dealings]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The only smile worth having]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Dead & dark seasons]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[At the cross]]<br> | ||
+ | [[How many, O how many]]<br> | ||
+ | [[It has ruined him, body & soul]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Three books]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The whole apparatus of religion]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Things which the angels desire to look into]]<br> | ||
+ | [[This most precious & suitable Saviour!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[My path]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The desires of the flesh & of the mind]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If you are at home in the world]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Thirst]]<br> | ||
+ | [[All the devil's tricks!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A natural religiosity.]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A louder witness]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Precious & glorious]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[That was more than His holy soul could bear!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The religion of man]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The wings of a butterfly]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Yawning & lounging their time away]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The blind, three-headed idol]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Overcoming the world]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We must be taught of God]]<br> | ||
+ | [[This reptile heart]]<br> | ||
+ | [[What cold—what heartless work]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We are, most of us, so fettered down]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Forever swallowed up with His presence & love]]<br> | ||
+ | [[They shall come with weeping]]<br> | ||
+ | [[When the body sinks]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The general religion of the day]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Walking with God]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[If there were no furnace]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Known to our hearts by a divine power]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A man who reads his eyes out!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Holiness & truth]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Such exceedingly religious people]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Hard as a stone, cold as ice, motionless as a corpse]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Those divine & heavenly truths]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The grand deceit of Satan]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Divine breathings]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Shrouded in mystery]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Composed out of dead men's brains!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The caged wolf]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We have no abiding city here]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A refuge from our sinful, vile & guilty selves!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A smooth easy path]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[Will not this make ample amends for all?]]<br> | ||
+ | [[To learn our religion in such a painful way]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The sum & substance of the Scriptures]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Trials & afflictions]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A great lesson]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[If we were wholly left to ourselves]]<br> | ||
+ | [[When we are in the furnace]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Far better than living in this vain world]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The charms of the world & the pleasures of sin]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Trials & afflictions 1]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Tender mercies 1]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The special & unceasing grace of God]]<br> | ||
+ | [[An adder would come out of every one of them!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A puzzle to myself]]<br> | ||
+ | [[I feel my ignorance in divine things]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[Continually haunting me]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Gently whispering to you]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Almighty, though gentle, fingers]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Super-abounding grace 1]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Snares of death]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[That wonderful medicine!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A living religion]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If there were no love of sin]]<br> | ||
+ | [[These hideous monsters]]<br> | ||
+ | [[All our acts in babyhood]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[A mysterious thing]]<br> | ||
+ | [[We are like truant children!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[What a wretched man I am!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The grand bent of man's carnal heart]]<br> | ||
+ | [[When they feel leprous to the core]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[Your temporal trials are included]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Don't leave my soul destitute]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Secret divine communications]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Earthen vessels]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The fruits of a godly life]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[Dangerous & worst spots]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The sympathy of Christ]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A question which deeply interests]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The love & worship of idols]]<br> | ||
+ | [[If a man was left by God]]<br> | ||
+ | |[[With bitter grief & mournful cry]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Seas of blood & love!]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The sum & substance of all vital godliness]]<br> | ||
+ | [[The mountaintop of pride]]<br> | ||
+ | [[A boundless treasury of trials]]<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |[[A world of deception & falsehood]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Nothing but sovereign grace]]<br> | ||
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+ | '''[[Next Part Man's religion & God's religion 2]]''' | ||
+ | [[Category:Christianity]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Church]] |
Latest revision as of 01:33, 5 January 2013
Man's religion & God's religion 2
"That no flesh should glory in His presence." 1 Cor. 1:29
Man's religion is to build up the creature. God's religion is to throw the creature down in the dust of self-abasement, and to glorify Christ.