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exercise of my function, since the advancing of virtue and holiness, (which I hope you make your greatest study,) is the peculiar business of my employment.
“Suppose a man to be a true believer, and yet finds in himself a powerful indwelling sin, leading him captive to the law of it, consuming his heart with trouble, perplexing his thoughts, weakening his soul as to duties of communion with God, disquieting him as to peace, and perhaps defiling his conscience, and exposing him to hardening through the deceitfulness of sin,—what”
― The Mortification of Sin
― The Mortification of Sin
“Isa. xliii. 22, “Thou hast not called upon me, thou hast been weary of me.”
― Indwelling Sin in Believers
― Indwelling Sin in Believers
“God uses means to awaken joy in himself,”
― When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy
― When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy
“There is none of you who would not publicly exclaim that everyone should be moderator and arbitrator in his own matter, who would not command all citizens to use rivers and public places equally and indifferently, who would not with all his power defend the liberty of going hither and thither and trading.”
― The Free Sea
― The Free Sea
“His majesty not only confirmed the decision to which the commissioners had come, but issued other royal letters by which Cortes was empowered to banish from New Spain all deserters and those Spaniards who strolled about the country like vagabonds, as they obstructed the conversion of the Indians to Christianity. Further, all lawyers were forbidden to settle in New Spain for a certain number of years to come, for they only created lawsuits, quarrels, and dissensions among the inhabitants.”
― The Conquest of New Spain
― The Conquest of New Spain
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