[b]Lilies and rosesamong the briars[/b](Thomas Watson, "Religion Our True Interest")"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world!" Romans 12:2We should be holiest in evil times. The profaneness of the times should not slacken our zealbut heighten it. The looser others arethe stricter we should be. The way to hell is a well-trodden road. "You shall not follow a multitude to do evil." Exodus 23:2. Dead fish swim down the streamliving fish swim against it. Mere professors cut the garment of their religion according to the mode and fashion of the times.Let us keep up the vigor of our zeal, in degenerate times. We should by a holy contrarinessburn hotter in a frozen age. We live in the dregs of time; sin is grown common and impudent. It is excellent to walk contrary to the world. Let us be as lilies and rosesamong the briars. Sin is never the betterbecause it is in fashion! The impiety of the times, is a foil to set off grace all the more, and give it a greater luster. This plea will not help at the last day"that we did as most others did." God will say, "Seeing you sinned with the multitudeyou shall go to hell with the multitude!" Oh, let us keep pure among the dregs! Let us be like fish, which retain their freshness, in salt waters.It is better to go to heaven with a fewthan to hell in thecrowd! "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Matthew 7:13-14
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sermonindex wrote:[b]We should be holiest in evil times.[/b] The profaneness of the times should not slacken our zealbut heighten it. The looser others arethe stricter we should be. Let us keep up the vigor of our zeal, in degenerate times. We should by a holy contrarinessburn hotter in a frozen age. We live in the dregs of time; sin is grown common and impudent. It is excellent to walk contrary to the world. Let us be as lilies and rosesamong the briars. Sin is never the betterbecause it is in fashion! The impiety of the times, is a foil to set off grace all the more, and give it a greater luster.
Where do you find these excerpts by Thomas Watson?
BlazedbyGod wrote:Where do you find these excerpts by Thomas Watson?
We live in the dregs of time
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