Praise as poison
Do you now look upon praise as deadly poison, which you can neither give nor receive but at the peril of your soul? Do you still dread and abhor all conversation, which does not tend to the use of edifying; and labor to improve every moment, that it may not pass without leaving you better than it found you? Are not you less careful as to the expence both of money and time? Cannot you now lay out either, as you could not have done once? Alas! How has that which should have been for your health, proved to you an occasion of falling? How have you sinned, because you were not under the law, but under grace!
1771 text
Do you now look upon praise as deadly poison, which you can neither give nor receive but at the peril of your soul? Do you still dread and abhor all conversation, which does not tend to the use of edifying; and labour to improve every moment, that it may not pass without leaving you better than it found you? Are not you less careful as to the expence both of money and time? Cannot you now lay out either, as you could not have done once? Alas! How has that which should have been for your health, proved to you an occasion of falling? How have you sinned, because you was not under the law, but under grace!
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 35 in the 1771 Works. Romans 3:31.
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