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		<title>Christ suffers patiently the weak lambs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[None are fitter for comfort than those that think themselves furtherest off. Men, for the most part, are not lost enough in their own feeling for a Saviour. A holy despair in ourselves is the ground of true hope. In God the fatherless find mercy (Hos. 14:3); if men were more fatherless, they should feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=765&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The conquering Christian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Christian is an impregnable person. He is a person that never can be conquered. Emmanuel became man to make the church and every Christian to be one with him. Christ&#8217;s nature is out of danger of all that is hurtful. The sun shall not shine, the wind shall not blow, to the church&#8217;s hurt. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=757&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Witness of the Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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The Spirit &#8230; witnesses &#8230; by &#8230; whatsoever of Christ&#8217;s is applied to us by the Spirit. But, besides witnessing with these witnesses, the Spirit hath a distinct witness by way of enlarging the soul; which is joy in the apprehension of God&#8217;s fatherly love.&#8230; The Spirit doth not always witness &#8230; by force of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=408&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God&#039;s court within us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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To clear this further concerning the nature of conscience know that God hath set up in a man a court, and there is in man all that are in a court.


1. There is a register to take notice of what we have done.&#8230; The conscience keeps diaries. It sets down everything. It is not forgotten, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=363&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God&#039;s court within us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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To clear this further concerning the nature of conscience know that God hath set up in a man a court, and there is in man all that are in a court.


1. There is a register to take notice of what we have done.&#8230; The conscience keeps diaries. It sets down everything. It is not forgotten, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=389&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is proper that brethren should be alike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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We are predestinated to be conformed to Christ. He is the first among many brethren (Rom 8:29) The chief brethren must be alike. Being predestined to salvation, it was fitting we should be conformed to our elder brother, that brethren might be of one nature and disposition. [Richard Sibbes]


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		<title>When Christ acts the part of an enemy to us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Christ may act the part of an enemy a little while, as Joseph did, but it is to make way for acting his own part of mercy in a&#160; more seasonable time. He cannot restrain his bowels of mercy long. He seems to wrestle with us, as with Jacob, but he supplies us with hidden [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=316&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being humble in doing good</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 23:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Let us take care to be and to do as we should, and then for noise and report, let it be good or ill as God will send it&#8230; if we seek to be in the mouths of men, to dwell in the tank and speech of men, God will abhor us&#8230;Therefore let us labour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=221&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the company we keep</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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We should take heed with whom we join in league and amity. Before we plant our affections, consider the persons what they are; if we see any signs of grace, then it is good; but if not there will be a rent. Throughout our whole life this ought to be our rule; we should labour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=201&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If not for fruit, tis for the fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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It is better for a bramble to be in the wilderness than in an orchard; for a weed to be abroad, than in a garden, where it is sure to be weeded out, as the other to be cut down. If a man will be unprofitable, let him be unprofitable out of the church. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=197&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Christians condition-hidden from the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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The reason why the world sees not the happy condition of God&#8217;s children is because their bodies are subject to the same infirmities with the worst of men, nor are they exempted from troubles; they are also subject to fall into gross sins, and therefore worldly men think, &#8220;Are these the men that are happier [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=167&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disposessing the strong man</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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When once the Spirit fastens the wrath of God upon the conscience of one whom He means to save, then there follow those afflicting affections of grief and shame. From thence come a dislike and hatred of sin and a divorce between the soul and the beloved sin, so that whereas there was before a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=155&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Satan ripens cherished sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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It is hard to discern the working of Satan from our own corruptions, because for the most part he goes secretly along with them; he is like a pirate at sea who fires upon us under our own colors. Like Judas to Christ, he comes as a friend, therefore it is hard to discern; but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apuritanatheart.wordpress.com&blog=2346125&post=143&subd=apuritanatheart&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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