prison! the iron bolts and prison ! Surely this prisoner must have been a little ! Are you willing to remain…awakened…and nothing more? Are you not eager to be forgiven ? If you in anguish and dread, surely you, too, must be a little out of your mind! If peace be had, have it at once! Why in the darkness of the pit…?.Why lie in the gloom and die in anguish?.Salvation is not by knowing own ruin, but by…grasping the deliverance provided in Christ Jesus. The door was open but he pleaded with tears to be allowed to stay where he had been so long. You cannot get them away from their terrors – they seem to them…One who had been long in prison was not willing to come out. Some seem as if they had fallen in love with their doubts, and fears, and distresses. A sense of need of salvation by grace is a very healthful sign but one needs wisdom to use it, and not make an idol of it. It is as though I said that water could not cleanse my face unless I looked longer in the, and had counted the upon my forehead. To imagine that my feeling of sin in the removing of sin is absurd. Spurgeon said, “Our awakenings are not to help the Saviour, but to help us to the Saviour.

Another trick of Satan is to make you think that simple trust in Jesus is not enough to save you, unless you have great despair to add to the Saviour’s work.

It is a trick of Satan to be satisfied with a sense of sin.

Torrent amore fra le rovine 1975