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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Easy thing to be a Christian?

It were an easy thing to be a Christian, if religion stood only in a few outward works and duties, but to take the soul to task, and to deal roundly with our own hearts, and to let conscience have its full work, and to bring the soul into spiritual subjection unto God, this is not so easy a matter, because the soul out of self-love is loath to enter into itself, lest it should have other thoughts of itself than it would have.

Richard Sibbes
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