Yes, and worse than a dog!
Christian, you cannot believe that evil which is in
your heart, and which will break forth suddenly--
if GOD should leave you!
young men with the sword, dash their infants
in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.
And Hazael answered: What is your servant,
only a dog, that he should do this monstrous
thing!" (2 Kings 8).
Hazael could not believe he had such evil
in his heart, that he should rip up women
with child. Is your servant a dog?
Yes, and worse than a dog--
when that corruption within is stirred up!
If one had come to Peter and said,
"Peter, within a few hours
you will deny CHRIST,"
he would have said,
should do such a monstrous thing?"
But alas! Peter did not know his own
heart, nor how far that corruption within
would prevail upon him!
The sea may be calm and look clear;
but when the wind blows--
how it rages and foams!
Just so, though now your heart seems
good, yet, when temptation blows--
how may sin reveal itself, making
you foam with lust and passion!
Who would have thought to have found . . .
adultery in David,
drunkenness in Noah,
and cursing in Job?
If GOD leaves a man to himself--
how suddenly and scandalously may
sin break forth in the holiest men on the earth!
Psalm 119:117
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