Formation of the Christian Character Addressed to Those Who Are Seeking to Lea
Formation of the Christian Character Addressed to Those Who Are Seeking to Lea
Ware Henry
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One's happiness, therefore, as well as duty, requires this control of the disposition. And when the Saviour pronounced his bene- diction on the pure, peaceful, humble-minded, and meek, he taught, not only the great re- quisite of his spiritual kingdom, but the great secret of human felicity. When the frame of your mind is thus a con- THE DISCIPLINE OF LIFE. 163 slant care, you will find little difficulty in the control of the Appetites. These things are connected together ; and, an ascendency o...ver the former being secured, the subjection of the latter easily follows. But take good heed that it does follow. Do not be thoughtless about it, because you fancy that it will of course accompany a regulated mind. Other- wise it is here that corruption may begin. The enemy will enter at any place, however improbable, which shall be left unguarded. And it only needs that the body become dis- ordered through the immoderate indulgence of the appetites, to raise a rebellion through- out the whole moral system; or, to speak more plainly, this indulgence will create cloudiness of mind, indisposition to thought, activity, and duty, irritability of temper, slug- gishness of devotional feeling, and at length a general spiritual lethargy.
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