Indwelling Sin Lures By its Deceit

The soul, having frequent need of relief by gospel grace against a sense of the guilt of sin and accusation of the law, comes at length to make it a common and ordinary thing, and such as may be slightly performed. Having found a good medicine for its wounds, and such as it has had experience of its effectiveness, it comes to apply it slightly, and rather skims over than actually cure its sores. A little less earnestness, a little less diligence, serves sin every time—until the soul, it may be, begins to secure itself of pardon in course.