If we cannot do it with clean and all-men-loving hearts, let us
leave all debate and contention to stronger and better men than we are.
The truth will never be advanced or guarded by us, nor will the Lord of
truth and love accept our service or bless our souls, till we put on the
divine nature, and have our hearts and our mouths still more full of love
than our minds and our mouths are full of truth. Let us watch ourselves,
lest with all our so-called love of truth we be found reprobates at last
because we loved the truth for some selfish or party end, and hated and
despised our brother, and believed all evil and disbelieved all good
concerning our brother. Truth without love makes a hypocrite, says Dr.
Pusey; and evangelical truth without evangelical love makes an
evangelical hypocrite, says Thomas Shepard. Only where the whole truth
is united to a heart full of love have we the perfect New Testament
Christian.
TIMOROUS AND MISTRUST
'There is a lion in the way.'--The Slothful Man.
'I must venture.'--Christian.
'I at any rate must venture,' said Christian to Timorous and Mistrust.
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