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Grace doth not pluck up by the roots and wholly destroy the natural passions of the mind because they are distempered by sin! That were an extreme remedy to cure by killing and heal by cutting off; no, but it corrects the distemper in them. It dries not up this main stream of love but purifies it from the mud which it is full of in its wrong course or turns it into its right channel, by which it may run into happiness and empty itself into the ocean of goodness. The Holy Spirit turns the love of the soul toward God in Christ, for in that way only can it apprehend His love. So then Jesus Christ is the first object of this divine love; He is medium unionis, through whom God conveys the sense of His love to the soul and receives back its love to Himself. Robert Leighton

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There is nothing doth so kindly work repentance as the right apprehension of the mercy and love of God. The beams of that love are more powerful to melt the heart than all the flames of Mount Sinai, all the threatenings and terrors of the law. Sin is the root of our misery, and therefore it is the proper work of this mercy to rescue the soul from it, both from the guilt and the power of it at once.

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Divine grace, even in the heart of weak and sinful man, is an invincible thing. Drown it in the waters of adversity, it rises more beautiful, as not being drowned in deed but only washed; throw it into the furnace of fiery trials, it comes out purer and loses nothing but the dross that our corrupt nature mixes with it.Commentary 1st Peter

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