pushes me down the precipice, and the foe who persuades me to go to sleep in the sun, are alike reasons for fear. (γ) The sinful nature in myself is my enemy. “No one’s enemy but his own” is a common form of speech. Every man is a ship with a mutinous crew on board, and destruction is averted only by the masterful assertion of my better self against my lower self, of my conscience against my passions, of the grace of God against the sin that dwelleth in me. “Christian, seek not yet repose, Cast thy
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