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[William Jay]

Consider the disposition of the world - "Marvel not if the world hate you." If they hate the light, they are not likely to love those who diffuse it. The principles and walk of the Christian reproach and condemn, not only the profane, but many who would pass for religious, but who deny the power of godliness, while they have the form. The mere moral and pharisaical are often the bitterest enemies of evangelical piety. The rule was once deemed without exception: "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." The absence of it now, is owing, not to the lack of disposition, but power. Many things restrain it; yet it is restrained only in the degree. The hand is tied; but the tongue is free - and how does it deal with the decided followers of the Lamb? And what is the carnal mind, but enmity against God?
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[T L Cole]