I knew a case, once, of an individual who
was very anxious, but one day I was grieved to find that her convictions seemed to be all gone. I asked her what she had been doing. She told me
she had been spending the afternoon at such a place, among some professors of religion, not thinking that it would dissipate her convictions to spend
an afternoon with professors of religion. But they were trifling and vain, and thus her convictions were lost. And no doubt those professors of
religion, by their folly, destroyed a soul, for her convictions did not return
The church is required to use the means for
the conversion of sinners. Sinners cannot properly be said to use the means for their own conversion. The church uses the means. What sinners do
is to submit to the truth, or to resist it. It is a mistake of sinners, to think they are using means for their own conversion. The whole drift of a
revival, and every thing about it, is designed to present the truth to
your mind, for your obedience or resistance.
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