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 to me, and I to the world." And young communicants leaving that gap open, make useless old ones after.

(2.) To the sin that most easily besets you. If you have no heart to thresh that mountain, ye have not the spirit of worm Jacob, who is one that keeps himself from his iniquity, Psal. xviii. 23. and ye will be buried under it at length, like the young man, who was grieved at Christ's discourse about self-denial and the cross, and went away from him, and never returned, Mark x. 21.

(3.) To the crook in your lot. Have you no heart in yourselves to wish for a Christian like bearing of it, but must needs have it evened to your mind? If ye have not, ye are not of the spirit of the worm Jacob: for Christ hath said, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me," Matth. xvi. 24.

Secondly, Yet they are but worms in their own eyes; and, therefore, an unequal match for the least of the mountains, 2 Cor. iii. 5. "We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God." This casts the legalist, that minds nothing but binding himself to duty; reckoning himself man enough for the duties of Christianity. The sum of the mark is, The Christian communicant is resolute and peremptory for doing all; yet he is convinced that he is sufficient for nothing?