Pray to the Holy Spirit to convince you more and more of
righteousness; to make you see what righteousness is; that it is the
very character and likeness of God the Father, because it is the
character and likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ, who was the
brightness of the Father's glory, and the express image of His
person. Pray to Him to make you see the beauty of holiness: how
fair, and noble, and glorious a thing goodness is; how truly Solomon
says: "that all the things that may be desired are not to be
compared to it."
Pray to the Holy Spirit to convince you more and more of judgment,
and to make you sure that the Lord is King, a righteous Judge, of
purer eyes than to behold iniquity, whose fan is in His hand, who
thoroughly purges His floor, who comes quickly, and His reward is
with Him, and who surely casts out of His kingdom, sooner or later,
all things that offend, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. Pray
to Him to make you sure by faith, though you cannot see it, that the
prince of this world is judged; that evil doing, oppression, tyranny,
injustice, cheating, neglect of man by man, cannot and will not
prosper upon the face of God's earth; for the everlasting sentence
and wrath of God is revealed forth every moment against all
unrighteousness of men, which He will surely punish, yea, and does
hourly punish by Him by whom He judges the world, Jesus Christ, the
Lord, who is exalted high above all principalities and powers, and
has all power given to Him in heaven and earth, which He uses, as He
used it in Judaea of old, utterly and always for the good of all
mankind, whom He hath redeemed with His most precious blood.
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