Having mercy upon our own souls
Behold! O man, thy soul was formed by God Himself. It is of a finer texture than the trodden clod—endowed with an intelligence of a higher nature than animal instinct. It is a vile degradation of its powers to feed it only with the beggarly elements of earth–thou oughtest to set thy affections on things that are above, and to commune with the invisible and the eternal. Thou robbest the Almighty–thou art treasuring up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God. Thou canst not perish absolutely, for God will not annihilate thee. Be zealous and repent, lest thou become an eternal monument of his just vengeance. Oh that some Jonas had this point in hand, to cry in your ears, ‘Yet a few days and the rebellious shall be destroyed;’ till you were brought down on your knees in sackcloth and ashes! Oh if some John Baptist might cry it abroad, ‘Now if the axe laid to the root of the trees; every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire!’ Oh that some son of thunder, who could speak as Paul, till the hearers tremble, were now to preach this doctrine to thee! Alas! as terribly as you think I speak, yet is it not with the thousandth part of what must be felt; for what heart can now possibly conceive, or what tongue can express, the dolours of those souls that are under the wrath of God? Ah, that ever blind sinners should willfully bring themselves to such unspeakable misery! You will then be crying to Jesus Christ,–Oh mercy! Oh, pity, pity on a poor soul! Why, I do now in the name of the Lord Jesus cry to thee, Oh, mercy, pity man, upon thine own soul! Who can stand before the Lord and hide the fierceness of his anger? Methinks thou shouldst need no more words, but presently cast away thy soul damning sins, and wholly deliver thyself up to Christ. Resolve on it immediately, man, and let it be done, that I may see thy face in rest among the saints. The Lord persuade thy heart to strike this covenant without any longer delay; but if thou be hardened unto death, and there be no rememdy, yet do not say another day that thou wasn’t faithfully warned, nor that thou hadst a friend that would fain have prevented thy damanation. [Richard Baxter]
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Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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