Some, when they come at the cross, will either there make a stop and
go no further, or else, if they can, step over it; if not, they will
go round about. Do not thou do this, but take it up and kiss it, and
bear it after Jesus.
Where is the man that walketh with his cross upon his shoulder?
Where is the man that is zealous of moral holiness? Indeed, for
those things that have nothing of the cross of the purse, or of the
cross of the belly, or of the cross of the back, or of the cross of
the vanity of household affairs--for those things, I find we have
many, and very busy sticklers; but otherwise, the cross,
self-denial, charity, purity in life and conversation, is almost
quite out of doors among professors. But, man of God, do thou be
singular as to these.
OBEDIENCE IN LITTLE THINGS.
Little things do ofttimes prove us most; for we, through the pride
of our hearts, are apt to overlook little things, because, though
commanded, they are but little.
Sometimes God would have men exact to a word, sometimes even to a
tack or pin or loop, sometimes to a step. Be careful, then, in
little things, but yet leave not the other undone.
MOTIVES TO HOLT LIVING. When God shows a man the sin he has
committed, the hell he has deserved, the heaven he has lost--and yet
that Christ and grace and pardon may be had--this will make him
serious, this will make him melt, this will break his heart, this
will show him that there is more than air, than a noise, than an
empty sound in religion; and this is the man whose heart, whose
life, whose conversation and all will be engaged in the matter of
the eternal salvation of his precious and immortal soul.
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