The more we taste of the pleasures of sinHow we find that there are two principles withinus continually at war, and how they ever wrestlefor mastery! But whatever suits and pleases theflesh will surely make the soul lean, and bring ondeadness and barrenness.The more we taste of the pleasures of sin, themore we get blinded and intoxicated by them, andthe more anxious to enjoy them in this time-state,whether we go to heaven or not.Right hands and right eyes are dear to us,and self-denial is a continual cross.When we are tried, tempted, and harassed, we wantease and comfort. Yet we daily learn that withoutballast we should not sail in any way safely on theseas of temptation. We need chastisements, rods,and crosses, to bring us to a throne of grace; andwe need a daily sense of our vileness and our sinsto constrain us to fly to the only true refuge forpoor helpless sinners, who is a Friend in needand a Brother born for adversity. W.Tiptaft
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