Use them as means
Remember also to use all means as means, as ordained, not for their own sake, but in order to the renewal of your soul in righteousness and true holiness. If, therefore, they actually tend to this, well. But if not, they are dung and dross.
1771 text
Remember also, to use all means, as means: as ordained, not for their own sake, but in order to the renewal of your soul in righteousness and true holiness. If therefore they actually tend to this, well. But if not, they are dung and dross.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 16 in the 1771 Works. Malachi 3:7.
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