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The Christian Pilgrim in His Spirituall Conflict, and Conquest
The Christian Pilgrim in His Spirituall Conflict and Conquest Author:Lorenzo Scupoli General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 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: CHAPTER II. Of The Diffidence Or Distrust Of Ourselves. 1. This diffidence of thyself may be obtained by three manner of ways. First, by a deep sense of thy Distrust of . . ourselves is own baseness and misery, truly acknowledging acquired: ' ' 1. Byadeep that of thyself thou canst not do the least good sense of our ' " own noth- thing. For man can no more effect any good '"B"88; or meritorious work by his own power than a stone, if I may say it, is able of itself to ascend upwards; and he hath almost the like inclination to evil, as a heavy stone hath to the earth's centre. 2. The second way to get this self-distrust is to demand it of Him, Whose gracious gift it is, with 2. By hum- humble and earnest prayer. And to prevail in nest prayer; thy petition, thou must first acknowledge that thou truly wantest it, and that of thyself thou canst never attain to it. Thus, totally naked, present thy prayers with a constant faith, and a courageous hope to be heard, and to obtain this desired diffidence of thyself. And let thy prayer increase in daily fervour, and expect, with perseverance, the Divine pleasure in the granting of thy petition, and then be confident it will, sooner or later, be granted thee. 0 God often bestows in one short hour what He has deferred granting for many years. He knocks at our door suddenly. When He seems to be furthest off, even then He is nigh unto us, and in one brief visit repays more than ten thousand times the labour, weariness, dry- ness, and downheartedness endured for His love. Blessed be His holy will in all things I 3. The third is, that as often as thou failes...« less