It is well at the commencement of your Christian career to be fully alive to the fact that it is the Word of God which must be the touchstone for everything in your path, whether personally or relatively. Look at Psa. 119:104, “Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way”; and again, Psa. 119:128, “Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.” Notice how decidedly the Holy Ghost speaks through the Psalmist. It is either a right way according to the Word, or it is a false way to be hated. Man naturally loves to tone things down to keep his conscience quiet. God in creation “divided the light from the darkness,” and morally He does so still. Man would blend them together in a kind of dim twilight; but beware of these subtle compromises, and like David, say, “I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love” (Psa. 119:113).
Now do not let this apply only to the question of your salvation and personal state, but to that also which I now desire briefly to dwell upon; viz.,
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