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world, and now I will be a Christian, and of your own volition take the kingdom of heaven to storm and enter in? Ah! if you should say all these things, or any one of them, you would lie - it would be an abominable lie. All you ever did was to flee everything good, wise and holy until by the grace and power of God you were made to cry out for mercy and pardon. Your own will would have led you into hell long ago if God had suffered you to follow its dictates alway, and you are now what you are by the grace of God only. It was He who took you up out of the horrible pit, and mirey clay and placed you on the Rock of everlasting salvation. You were powerless even to lay hold of the anchor of hope that Christ held out to you until He gave you strength; and you could not crawl to the Fountain of purgation? until Jesus took you by the hand and led you; and when you got there you never would have entered it if He had not plunged you in, all praise be to His holy name. Where then is your boasting? Blessed by God! it is in Jesus Christ unclear. And well for you it is; or else the joys of salvation would never fill your soul as they do at this blessed day. Therefore, Praise ye the Lord, Oh! my soul! and all that is within me, praise HIs holy name; for it is He that