Friday, April 06, 2007

Well I have not blog in awhile, but I have started reading this book like the many other books that I have in my arsenal. Its called The Hidden Life by Adolph Saphir. I just thought I would post this paragraph and see what you all think of it so ... there you go.

"The godly man hates the evil he possibly by temptation hath been drawn to do, and loves the good he is frustrated of, and, having intended, hath not attained to do. The sinner, who hath his denomination from sin as his course, hates the good which sometimes he is forced to do, and loves that sin which many times he does not, either wanting occasion and means, so that he cannot do it, or through the check of an enlightend conscience possibly dares not do; and though so bound up form the act, as a dog in a chain, yet the habit, the natural inclination and desire in him, is still the same, the strength of his affection is carried to sin. So in the weakest sincere Christian, there is that predominant sincerity and desire of holy walking, according to which he is called a righteous person : the Lord is pleased to give him that name, and account him so, being upright in heart though often failing." -- Archbishop Leighton