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The Whole Works of Robert Leighton [ed. By] J.n. Pearson
The Whole Works of Robert Leighton Jn Pearson - ed. By Author:Robert Leighton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1830 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SERMONS. SERMON I. PREFACE. M. ANY and great are the evils that lodge within the heart of man, and they come forth abundantly both by the tongue and by the hand, yet the heart is not emptied of them; yea, the more it vents them outwardly, the more they increase within. Well might He who knows the heart so well, call it an evil treasure. We find the prophet Ezekiel, in his eighth chapter, led by the Lord in vision to Jerusalem, to view the sins of the Jews who remained there in the time of the captivity : when He had shewed him one abomination, He caused him to dig through the wall, to enter and discover more, and so directed him several times, from one place to another, and still said, / will shew thee yet greater abominations. Thus is it with those whom the Lord leads into an examination of their own hearts, (for men are usually strangers to themselves,) by the light of His word, and His Spirit going before them ; He lets them see heaps of abominations in every room, and the vilest in the most retired and darkest corners. And truly, should He leave them there, they would despair of remedy. No, He makes this discovery on purpose that they should sue to Him for help. Do so then, as many of you as have taken any notice of the evils of your own hearts. Tell the Lord, those hearts are His own work : He formed the heart of man within him. And they are His own choice too: My son, give me thy heart. Entreat Him to redress all those abuses where- with Satan and sin have filled it, and then to take possession of it Himself, for therein consists its happiness. This is, orshould be, a main end of our resorting...« less