But yet, recalling myself, thought I, I
must venture you all with God, though it goeth to the quick to leave
you. Oh, I saw in this condition I was as a man who was pulling down
his house upon the heads of his wife and children; yet, thought I, I
must do it, I must do it: and now I thought on those two milch kine
that were to carry the ark of God into another country, and to leave
their calves behind them. 1 Sam 6:10.
DR. OWEN.
What if, as you suggest, the sober Dr. Owen, though he told me and
others, at first, he would write an epistle to my book, ("Peaceable
Principles and True,") yet waved it afterwards; this was also to my
advantage; because it was the earnest solicitations of several of
you that at that time stopped his hand: and perhaps it was more for
the glory of God that truth should, go naked into the world, than as
seconded by so mighty an armor-bearer as he.
TRUTH.
The truth is of that nature, that the more it is opposed, the more
glory it appears in; and the more the adversary objects against it,
the more it will clear itself.
There belongs to every true notion of truth, a power; the notion is
the shell, the power the kernel and life.
It is impossible that a carnal heart should conceive of the weight
that truth lays upon the conscience of a believer.
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