The Lost Sought and Saved by J.C. Philpot
All true sight and knowledge of the fall flow from the teachings of the Spirit. As, therefore, we obtain light from on high, and feel
spiritual life in our breast, there is a deeper discovery of the Adam fall, and of our own miserable state as involved in it, until we are brought to see and feel, that in us, that is, in our flesh dwelleth no good thing.
Now this will ever be in a proportionate degree to the manifestation of the purity and
holiness of the character of God, and the application of God’s holy law in its breadth and
spirituality to the soul.
This will effectually dispel all dreams of human purity and creature perfection. Let one ray of divine light shine into the soul out of the
holiness of God, how it discovers and lays bare the
hypocrisy and
wickedness of the human heart!
How it seems to take the lid off the boiling pot,
and shews us human nature
heaving,
bubbling,
boiling up with
pride,
unbelief,
infidelity,
enmity against God,
peevishness,
discontent,
and every hate
ful,
foul,
unclean
lust,
very base propensity and
filthy desire.
You may hear now and then in others the bubbling and boiling through the vessel. But to know yourself, you must look below the lid to see how it steams, and hisses, and throws up its thick and filthy scum from the bottom of the cauldron.
A calm may be on the face, but a
boiling sea within.
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