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'''[[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. ---- {| border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" |[[A mystery to yourself]] [[O, what slow learners!]] [[Take me as I am]] [[Nothing but a huge clod of dust]] [[How can they escape?]] |[[God shall supply]] [[Our infirmities]] [[Why are you in despair?]] [[Treasure in earthen vessels]] [[Trials, temptations, stripping, emptying]] |[[No fear!]] [[These difficulties!]] [[Idolatry!]] [[Inward conflicts]] [[Wounds, bruises, putrefying sores]] |- |[[The wilderness wanderer]] [[Temptation]] [[Idling life away like an idiot or a madman]] [[This wily devil!]] [[To bathe in the ocean of endless bliss!]] |[[The King in His beauty]] [[Can the Ethiopian change his skin?]] [[That heavenly Teacher]] [[Preserving grace before regeneration]] [[Free!]] |[[These fugitive, transitory things]] [[A sad motley mixture]] [[Enlarge my heart]] [[Our refuge!]] [[Supernatural light]] |- |[[Little heathen]] [[Wearied, torn & half expiring]] [[I am weak & ignorant, full of sin]] [[By the grace of God]] [[The anointing]] |[[Can I be a child of God, and be thus?]] [[The truth shall make you free!]] [[Sin cannot be subdued in any other way]] [[Two kinds of repentance]] [[Have we nothing to give to Christ?]] |[[Suffering]] [[In this scene of confusion & distraction]] [[His own sore]] [[What are we, when we have no trials?]] [[Spiritual poverty]] |- |[[The religion of a dead professor]] [[Have we not leaned upon a thousand things?]] [[No sight, short of this]] [[The penetrating light of the spirit]] [[All true religion]] |[[The regenerating operations of the Holy Spirit]] [[This hard school of painful experience]] [[Difficulties, obstacles & hindrances]] [[The poison fang of sin!]] [[A penitent backslider & a forgiving God!]] |[[Salvation!]] [[A peculiar people]] [[Softened, broke & melted your heart]] [[Fixed & fastened by an Almighty hand]] [[When we are reduced to poverty & beggary]] |- |[[As they come, they weep]] [[This is the saint's inheritance!]] [[Savoury food such as their soul loves]] [[A smoother way to glory?]] [[Seek real things]] |[[We stand upon slippery places!]] [[One grain of holiness]] [[Hidden manna]] [[Entangled, perplexed & distressed]] [[Lifeless, barren head knowledge]] |[[Poor in spirit]] [[Utter fools!]] [[The heart of God's child]] [[A spirit of delusion]] [[Husks which the swine eat]] |- |[[Then they cried]] [[O what painful work it is!]] [[Accepted!]] [[Blundering & stumbling on in darkness]] [[When you are in the wilderness]] |[[O what crowds of pitiable objects]] [[Trouble, sorrow & affliction]] [[From a burning hell—to a blissful heaven!]] [[Our own wisdom, righteousness & strength]] [[Oh! Sweet grace, blessed grace!]] |[[Dying]] [[Which is better?]] [[There must be continual trials]] [[Personal, spiritual, experimental knowledge]] [[Help from the sanctuary]] |- |[[Holy wrestling]] [[A disciple of Jesus]] [[Sovereign, supreme disposal]] [[You must not love one of these glittering baubles]] [[One unmingled scene of happiness & pleasure]] |[[The rod was dipped in love]] [[The best teacher]] [[Buried in the grave of carnality & worldliness]] [[A solitary drop of this holy anointing oil]] [[Practical atheists]] |[[Dead in sin]] [[Continual salvation]] [[The fatal mistake of thousands]] [[The great secret of vital godliness]] [[If the devil ever feels joy]] |- |[[Fear not!]] [[The desire of our soul]] [[O Self! Self!]] [[That dear, idolized creature]] [[Unquenched and unquenchable!]] |[[Crawl like a serpent, roar like a lion]] [[If you want to see what sin really is]] [[Hard-hearted, cold-blooded, wise-headed]] [[Our sanctuary]] [[Poor, miserable, paltry works of a polluted worm!]] |[[Mere toys & baubles]] [[Heavenly dew]] [[Coming up from the wilderness]] [[When we gaze upon the lifeless corpse]] [[There, on the other side, is my solitary soul]] |- |[[Even your own relatives think you are almost insane]] [[Straight paths]] [[Have nothing to do with them]] [[The foulest filth under the cleanest cloak]] [[Familiarity with sacred things]] |[[Pride, self-conceit & self-exaltation]] [[What? Will He forgive us all sins?]] [[This sacred anointing]] [[What makes the children of God so strange?]] [[With His stripes we are healed]] |[[Strangle & suffocate it!]] [[They shall never perish!]] [[All things!]] [[Without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish!]] [[Bitten by this serpent's tooth]] |- |[[The sin of pride]] [[They need a mighty God]] [[The Lord sometimes flogs His children home!]] [[Talk like an angel—and live like a devil]] [[This idol-making, idol-loving world]] |[[Many hard lessons]] [[Were we left wholly in its hands!]] [[Romantic dreams of pleasure & earthly joy?]] [[The love of the truth]] [[These lovers of ours]] |[[It is in these storms]] [[The incredible greatness of His power]] [[His secret power & influence]] [[All iniquity]] [[If your flesh had its full swing]] |- |[[A coward's castle]] [[Some beloved idol?]] [[That monstrous creature within us!]] [[The soul's natural element]] [[Godly sorrow]] |[[But our coward flesh shrinks from them!]] [[The filthy holes & puddles in which it grovels]] [[The Lord's secret power in our souls]] [[God's house]] [[When the Holy Spirit preaches the gospel]] |[[We get entangled with some idol]] [[The sins & slips of the saints]] [[Experimental knowledge]] [[Friend, can you understand my riddle?]] [[My greatest enemy?]] |- |[[There are many plans in a man's heart]] [[All are more or less deeply infected with it]] [[Ministers are often desirous]] [[Super-abounding grace]] [[Job's religion]] |[[The way in which the Spirit of God works]] [[The world is passing away]] [[Weary]] [[Oh, how religious he once used to be!]] [[It is a creature of many lives!]] |[[The believer's chief troubles]] [[A religion that satisfies thousands]] [[Down they sink to the bottom!]] [[Who can come out of the battle alive?]] [[God's mercy.]] |- |[[A flowery path?]] [[Toys & playthings of the religious baby-house]] [[But oh, the struggle! Oh, the conflict!]] [[A snake, a monkey, an onion, a bit of rag]] [[The mother & mistress of all the sins]] |[[I needed no monkish rules then]] [[The strong man sinks down into a babe!]] [[Save me, and I shall be saved!]] [[Crush its viper head with the heel of our boot!]] [[What a battlefield is the heart]] |[[How can he travel through this waste-howling wilderness?]] [[If God left us for a single hour]] [[A worldly spirit will ever peep out]] [[Enticing words of man's wisdom]] [[A peculiar, indescribable, invincible power]] |- |[[The deep things of God]] [[The religionists of the day]] [[My leanness, my leanness!]] [[Those poor stupid people!]] [[We were not always a set of poor mopes]] |[[You were secretly lifted up with pride]] [[To walk after the flesh]] [[The very thought is appalling!]] [[I will give you rest]] [[That which is highly esteemed among men]] |[[Invincibly & irresistibly drawn]] [[Woman's chief besetting sins]] [[Not your own!]] [[Do you seek great things for yourself?]] [[We would not be such muck-worms!]] |- |[[Tender mercies]] [[Can Christ love one like me?]] [[A woman's best ornament]] [[O you filthy creature!]] [[You never knew what real happiness was!]] |[[Were it no bigger than a child's doll]] [[All your filthiness]] [[What things were gain to me]] [[Looking down into a filthy pit!]] [[The largest slice of the well-sugared cake]] |[[Can they beat back this monster to his filthy den?]] [[When it comes in the guise of a friend]] [[Canaanitish idols & heathenish abominations]] [[This inward conflict]] [[Desperately wicked]] |- |[[So many truly sincere & religious people]] [[Sick of sin, sick of self, sick of the world]] [[A hundred doctrines floating in the head]] [[However low we may sink]] [[Nothing but a slave!]] |[[A glory, a beauty & a sweetness]] [[Having nothing—and yet possessing all things]] [[Riches, honours & comforts]] [[The continued teachings of the Spirit]] [[It will come in at every chink & crevice!]] |[[At last to cheat the devil!]] [[Cursed is the man]] [[That hideous idol self in his little shrine]] [[Such a perpetual & unceasing conflict?]] [[We need grace, free grace]] |- |[[We are not flogged into loving Him]] [[O what a company of lusts!]] [[As if this beautiful viper had no poison fang!]] [[The very remedy for all the maladies which we groan under!]] [[Weaned from feeding on husks & ashes]] |[[That secret loveliness]] [[Lord, I feel my own utter helplessness!]] [[O what a way of learning religion!]] [[Wrought with divine power]] [[The more lovely does Jesus appear!]] |[[We bring affliction upon ourselves]] [[A religious animal]] [[What a contrast!]] [[Sweet buy!]] [[God's perfect will]] |- |[[Which is the more obnoxious to God]] [[Five devil-isms!]] [[This is the struggle!]] [[It is I]] [[That sweet grace]] |[[Slaves of Satan!]] [[Trials, temptations, sorrows, perplexities]] [[Love not the world]] [[Paul's highest attainment]] [[Let God but take the cover off]] |[[When the cold winds are whistling over your grave]] [[The art of preaching]] [[My desire is]] [[A great & inestimable mercy]] [[Such monsters are more fit for a travelling circus]] |- |[[An apostolic face & a Judas heart]] [[A languishing body]] [[A painted bauble]] [[The religion which I want]] [[It will matter little when I lie in my coffin!]] |[[A little drop of purity in the midst of impurity]] [[If Mr. Pride gets a wound in the head]] [[Our greatest enemy]] [[The end will make amends for all!]] [[We are no longer young]] |[[The afflictions of the ungodly]] [[Like a little child in the arms of eternal love]] [[The end of God in all His doings & dealings]] [[The only smile worth having]] [[Dead & dark seasons]] |- |[[At the cross]] [[How many, O how many]] [[It has ruined him, body & soul]] [[Three books]] [[The whole apparatus of religion]] |[[Things which the angels desire to look into]] [[This most precious & suitable Saviour!]] [[My path]] [[The desires of the flesh & of the mind]] [[If you are at home in the world]] |[[Thirst]] [[All the devil's tricks!]] [[A natural religiosity.]] [[A louder witness]] [[Precious & glorious]] |- |[[That was more than His holy soul could bear!]] [[The religion of man]] [[The wings of a butterfly]] [[Yawning & lounging their time away]] [[The blind, three-headed idol]] |[[Overcoming the world]] [[We must be taught of God]] [[This reptile heart]] [[What cold—what heartless work]] [[We are, most of us, so fettered down]] |[[Forever swallowed up with His presence & love]] [[They shall come with weeping]] [[When the body sinks]] [[The general religion of the day]] [[Walking with God]] |- |[[If there were no furnace]] [[Known to our hearts by a divine power]] [[A man who reads his eyes out!]] [[Holiness & truth]] [[Such exceedingly religious people]] |[[Hard as a stone, cold as ice, motionless as a corpse]] [[Those divine & heavenly truths]] [[The grand deceit of Satan]] [[Divine breathings]] [[Shrouded in mystery]] |[[Composed out of dead men's brains!]] [[The caged wolf]] [[We have no abiding city here]] [[A refuge from our sinful, vile & guilty selves!]] [[A smooth easy path]] |- |[[Will not this make ample amends for all?]] [[To learn our religion in such a painful way]] [[The sum & substance of the Scriptures]] [[Trials & afflictions]] [[A great lesson]] |[[If we were wholly left to ourselves]] [[When we are in the furnace]] [[Far better than living in this vain world]] [[The charms of the world & the pleasures of sin]] [[Trials & afflictions 1]] |[[Tender mercies 1]] [[The special & unceasing grace of God]] [[An adder would come out of every one of them!]] [[A puzzle to myself]] [[I feel my ignorance in divine things]] |- |[[Continually haunting me]] [[Gently whispering to you]] [[Almighty, though gentle, fingers]] [[Super-abounding grace 1]] [[Snares of death]] |[[That wonderful medicine!]] [[A living religion]] [[If there were no love of sin]] [[These hideous monsters]] [[All our acts in babyhood]] |[[A mysterious thing]] [[We are like truant children!]] [[What a wretched man I am!]] [[The grand bent of man's carnal heart]] [[When they feel leprous to the core]] |- |[[Your temporal trials are included]] [[Don't leave my soul destitute]] [[Secret divine communications]] [[Earthen vessels]] [[The fruits of a godly life]] |[[Dangerous & worst spots]] [[The sympathy of Christ]] [[A question which deeply interests]] [[The love & worship of idols]] [[If a man was left by God]] |[[With bitter grief & mournful cry]] [[Seas of blood & love!]] [[The sum & substance of all vital godliness]] [[The mountaintop of pride]] [[A boundless treasury of trials]] |- |[[A world of deception & falsehood]] [[Nothing but sovereign grace]] |} ---- '''[[Next Part Man's religion & God's religion 2]]''' [[Category:Christianity]] [[Category:Church]]