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"Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and
your images covered with gold; you will throw them
away like a menstrual cloth and say to themAway
with you!" Isaiah 30:22
The true penitent is not so exceeding angry with himself
for anythingas he is angry with himself for his sins. There are
none who fret, and fume, and chafe at themselves for sin, as
penitent souls do. There are none who loathe themselves, who
abhor themselves, and who are weary of themselves, upon the
account of their sinslike penitent souls. It is not this thing nor
that, nor this enemy nor that, nor this party nor that, nor this
design nor thatbut sin, which is the mainthe grand object
of a penitent's hatred, scorn, wrath, rage, reproach, disgrace,
and contempt!
He who would be angry and sin notmust be angry at nothing
but sin. If some men would but spend more of their anger and
indignation against their sins, they would not be so angry as
they are with their brethren, that in disputable things differ
from them.
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