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

The Grace of Perception

The first remedy against this device of Satan is, To dwell more upon one another’s graces than upon one another’s weaknesses and infirmities. It is sad to consider that saints should have many eyes to behold one another’s infirmities, and not one eye to see each other’s graces, that they should use spectacles to behold one another’s weaknesses, rather than looking-glasses to behold one another’s graces.

Thomas Brooks
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