19/20 As Christ Himself did when He said: Come away apart into a desert place and rest a while; for there are so many people coming and going here that we have no time so much as to eat. But I see I must clip off my last point with you, which was to tell you what you already know only too well, and that is, what terrible shears a bad conscience is armed with, and what havoc she makes at all ages of a poor sinner's Bible. You can preach on that text to yourselves far better than all your ministers. Nothing in man, he says to us, is to be a ground of despair, since the whole ground of all our hope is in Christ alone. |