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light when they see it?) and is in "danger of eternal damnation"(age-lasting condemnation) whether he lives in "this world orthe world (age) to come." (Mark 3:29). But this injury to "theseed of the woman" is not corrupt above the heel (the physicalnature) and it, (head and body) when complete, will have put offmortality and will have life in itself; for (Rom. 2:7,) to them"who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory andhonor and immortality, eternal life" shall be given. But thisinjury to the heel is an affliction to the renewed mind, and such,like Paul, "find a law in their members warring against the lawof their mind, and bringing them into captivity to the law of sinwhich is in their members," and cry out with him, (Rom. 7:24-25,) "Who shall deliver me from this body of death?" Answer--"Jesus Christ our Lord," thank God. So then, with the mind, Imyself serve the law of God; but with the flesh (sore heel) thelaw of sin." (Chap. 8:1.) "There is, therefore, now, nocondemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus;" ("renewed inthe spirit of their mind, (Eph. 4:2-3,) who walk not after (downtoward) the flesh, but after (according to) the spirit."Great as the annoyance and distress is to have a sore heel, it isinfinitely better than to have a sore head; and the thought thatwe are so soon to be made perfect should inspire us withpatience to bear with fortitude the pain and vexation attending it,(2 Cor. 4:11,16,17,18.) For we which live are always deliveredunto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might bemade manifest in our mortal flesh... for which cause we faintnot; but though our outward man perish, (individual andcollective physical) yet the inward man (mind--Eph. 4:23,) isrenewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for amoment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternalweight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen,for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things whichare not seen are eternal.We would here recommend the remedy to which we havealready referred, which is excellent; we have never known it tofail to relieve a limping disciple; it is referred to in Eph. 6:15,and is called "the preparation of the gospel of peace." We havetried it and can "speak that we do know and testify that we haveseen." We can remember the time when our heel was sosensitive that certain sights and sounds sensibly affected it; wehave known instances where the sight of money caused some tolimp badly; we call to mind one notable case where the sight ormention of "thirty pieces of silver" caused one to stumble andfall "headlong." This is one of the worst cases of bruised heel weever knew, and should think it was the head (for as we said thatinvolves the whole being) if it were not for the statement madein Matt. 1:8; from this we infer that it was a desperate case ofsore heel. Another one, at sight of danger, falsified and swore,and afterward at the sound of cock-crowing "wept bitterly."
We have seen some stumble at sight of show-bills and at soundof music; and we have known some to stumble at sight of othersstumbling; this is not unfrequently the case. We have knownsome to stumble and fall at the sight and smell of whisky; andstrange as it may seem, we have known many who limped sobadly that they would stumble over a cigar or a small bit oftobacco; and we have known cases quite numerous where even afeather or a little shining object like a pearl or a diamond werehard to step over.But this preparation if faithfully used will cure all this andenable one to walk firmly and upright, though there may be aslight twinge in the heel occasionally. But the bruise upon thehead is terrible, much worse than that upon the heel, thoughsome of its manifestations are similar, for instance: We havebeen credibly informed of cases which were excited to thehighest pitch at the sound of the word office, who were totallydeaf to the words "Christ crucified," and very many who coulddistinctly hear the little word self at any time, but if you were toadd the word denial to it they could not distinguish the sound.One of the terrible phases of bruised head, is, that those thusafflicted will believe that nothing ails them, and consequentlywill have nothing done for them, while the sore heel class knowfull well what the trouble is and continually try to get better, andlook forward hopefully to the time when they shall be well.Light and heat, are the first requisites for a sore head, but it isvery difficult to get such to come to the light. John 3:19-20.There are many dark places now into which they can get awayfrom the light, but the light-bearer is at hand, and though theyshall call for the rocks and mountains to cover them that theymay remain in the dark, yet the light will shine (Isaiah 40:5)"and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shallsee it together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."One word more to our dear brethren of the bruised heel; (we alllimp at times) this preparation is not only a protection, like ashoe, but it is an emollient if rightly used; we find thatR193 : page 6pouring (or having poured) into it the "spirit of truth" is a greatimprovement, we have known of its being used without thespirit of truth and it became dry and hard. For the benefit ofthose who would like to get it, we would say that they will findexplicit directions in Luke 11:13. It has an invigoratinginfluence upon one, see John 6:63.We need, dear brethren to be well shod, and have on the wholearmor of God, for there is something worse than flesh and bloodto contend with. Eph. 6:12. May the Lord enable us, "havingdone all to stand," for the restored and perfected body of whichChrist is the head, shall soon rest its crushing weight upon the
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We have seen some stumble at sight of show-bills and at soundof music; and we have known some to stumble at sight of othersstumbling; this is not unfrequently the case. We have knownsome to stumble and fall at the sight and smell of whisky; andstrange as it may seem, we have known many who limped sobadly that they would stumble over a cigar or a small bit oftobacco; and we have known cases quite numerous where even afeather or a little shining object like a pearl or a diamond werehard to step over.But this preparation if faithfully used will cure all this andenable one to walk firmly and upright, though there may be aslight twinge in the heel occasionally. But the bruise upon thehead is terrible, much worse than that upon the heel, thoughsome of its manifestations are similar, for instance: We havebeen credibly informed of cases which were excited to thehighest pitch at the sound of the word office, who were totallydeaf to the words "Christ crucified," and very many who coulddistinctly hear the little word self at any time, but if you were toadd the word denial to it they could not distinguish the sound.One of the terrible phases of bruised head, is, that those thusafflicted will believe that nothing ails them, and consequentlywill have nothing done for them, while the sore heel class knowfull well what the trouble is and continually try to get better, andlook forward hopefully to the time when they shall be well.Light and heat, are the first requisites for a sore head, but it isvery difficult to get such to come to the light. John 3:19-20.There are many dark places now into which they can get awayfrom the light, but the light-bearer is at hand, and though theyshall call for the rocks and mountains to cover them that theymay remain in the dark, yet the light will shine (Isaiah 40:5)"and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shallsee it together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."One word more to our dear brethren of the bruised heel; (we alllimp at times) this preparation is not only a protection, like ashoe, but it is an emollient if rightly used; we find thatR193 : page 6pouring (or having poured) into it the "spirit of truth" is a greatimprovement, we have known of its being used without thespirit of truth and it became dry and hard. For the benefit ofthose who would like to get it, we would say that they will findexplicit directions in Luke 11:13. It has an invigoratinginfluence upon one, see John 6:63.We need, dear brethren to be well shod, and have on the wholearmor of God, for there is something worse than flesh and bloodto contend with. Eph. 6:12. May the Lord enable us, "havingdone all to stand," for the restored and perfected body of whichChrist is the head, shall soon rest its crushing weight upon the
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