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  OH DASH THESE BRATS OF BABYLON IN PIECES!
  by Thomas Brooks
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Summary: Thomas Brooks emphasizes the importance of recognizing and
combating secret sins through divine help and sincere mourning.

Topics: "Inner Conflict", "Secret Sins"
Scripture References: Psalm 19:12, Romans 7:24, James 1:14

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Thomas Brooks emphasizes the struggle against secret sins and inward
pollutions that only God and the individual can see. He contrasts the
hypocrite, who battles obvious sins, with the sincere Christian who
mourns over hidden corruptions. Brooks highlights the importance of
recognizing and combating these inner sins before they lead to greater
danger, urging believers to seek God's help in stifling the first
motions of sin. The sermon calls for a deep introspection and reliance
on divine power to cleanse the heart from these secret faults.

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"Cleanse me from secret faults." Psalm 19:12

The Christian's greatest and hottest conflicts,

are against those inward pollutions, and secret sins,

which are only obvious to the eye of God and their

own souls.

The hypocrite combats with those sins which are

obvious to every eye. But it must be a supernatural

power and principle, which puts men upon conflicting

with the inward motions and secret operations of sin.

"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from

the body of this death?" Romans 7:24. A sincere heart

weeps and laments bitterly over those secret and inward

corruptions, which others will scarcely acknowledge to be

sins.

The Persian kings reign powerfully, and yet are seldom seen

in public. Secret sins reign in many men's souls powerfully

and dangerously, when least apparently.

Oh! but a true Christian mourns over the inward motions and

first risings of sin in his soul, and so prevents an eternal danger.

Upon every stirring of sin in the soul, the believer cries out, "O

Lord, help! O Lord, undertake for me! Oh dash these brats of

Babylon in pieces! Oh stifle the first motions of sin, that they

may never conceive and bring forth!"

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/thomas-brooks/oh-dash-these-brats-of-babylon-in-pieces/
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