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The conversion of the soul is supposed to be as considerable a work, if not a greater, than the creation, for in the creation God had no adversary. The light did not say, "I will not be created"; the earth did not say, "I will not be formed." But in the new creation, sinners labor to prevent (as much as in them lies) the conception of grace, take down antidotes against salvation, and study how to defeat the Spirit of God and make its works abortive. God, when He comes, finds the house not only empty of grace but filled with lusts and the strong man up in arms; not a milk-white paper, but He finds the devil to have been scribbling and the world to have been scribbling. Angels may knock at the door of a sinner's heart, but God only can open it. The body is not so much at the command of the soul as the soul is at the command of God. "Without me ye can do nothing" (John 15). The Lord opened the heart of Lydia. Man's heart is God's lock, and not man's wisdom; but the Spirit of the Lord is the key that must unlock it. Francis Raworth
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If we cannot endure the Spirit going up and down with a candle and lantern to search our hearts, how can we abide the day of Christ's coming and stand when the Sun of Righteousness shall appear, for He is like refiner's fire and like fuller's soap? Justice, humility, repentance, though now they be but poor and low things with man, yet when the judge shall take the bench more visibly, how high will they be with God? Sincerity, though it be a silent grace at this time and dwells in obscurity, ere long, I hope, will carry the day and bear away the bell.

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What is conversion? It's the change of a man's treasure, of a man's chief good. Till thou change thy chief good, it's in vain to complain of the disorders of thy heart; therefore, every unregenerate man may hence see the absolute necessity of conversion.

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As the conversion of many people has taken place almost without observation, which often happens in the quieter walks of Christian life, and the conversion of a few only, who at first wandered far off, is incisive like that of an Augustine, such also is the case here. For the most part this witness works gradually and unobserved, and only in exceptional cases is it as lightning that suddenly flames through the skies.

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