The Sense of Hypocrisy in the Righteous Man
Henry Scudder, The Christian’s Daily Walk, p. 169:
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Eighthly, You will find the most evident mark of uprightness from your sense of hypocrisy in yourself, and from your conflict with it, Gal. v. 17. The upright man is sensible of too much hypocrisy and guile in his heart, Psa. li. 10. Yea, so much, that oftentimes he makes it a question whether he have any uprightness; and, until he has brought himself to due trial by the balance of the sanctuary, the word and the gospel of Christ, he fears he is still a hypocrite. But there is nothing which he would oppose more, nothing which he complains of, or prays to God more against, than this hypocrisy, nor is there any thing he longs after, labours and prays for more, than that he may love and serve the Lord in sincerity, 1 Cor. ix. 26, 27. All this plainly shows, that this man would be upright, which hearty desire so to be, is uprightness itself.
March 22, 2010 at 15:38
Oh, that the Holy Spirit moves all of us in this way! I see the mark of man in me every day, but hold hope (all of it) in the Lord to sanctify, purify, battling against the old nature.