"When zeal like incense burns, first the lamp of knowledge must be lighted."

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“Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.”

“Seriousness is the Christian's ballast which keeps him from being overturned with vanity.”

“O that we would therefore, while we are on this side of the grave, make our peace with God! Tomorrow may be our dying day; let this be our repenting day.”

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