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• He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays. Endeavor
• A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before… Almighty
• If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul,… Abide
• If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be… Bear
• We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread. Blessing
• Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. Affliction
• The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made partakers of Christ… Abounds
• We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our… All
• Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven… Blessing
• As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams; so will grace… Approach
• If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to… According
• Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms… All
• The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify… All
• The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds… Believer
• Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be… Cease
• Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom… All
• The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh. Comfort
• Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. Evident
• All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. All
• Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a… Daily
• Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified. Abides
• Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion… All
• There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in… Day
• Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims… Aim
• Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures... Acting

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