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Babies are darling, staring at you when firstborn. What are they thinking, you wonder? They seem so innocent. But Proverbs says that foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child. So what is that about?
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To keep in step with the Spirit should be our daily quest. And if we are successful at that, all of life falls into place.
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Describing the Indescribable
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Making Sense Of It All
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Sinners From Day One
March 4, 2009
Remember not the sins of my youth, and my rebellious ways. Psalm 25:7
Thomas Halyburton was a pastor and educator in St. Andrews during the 1700's. He asked to be buried next to Samuel Rutherford, and his wish was granted. And many feel that he has a pastor's heart much like Rutherford. In his memoirs, Halyburton thought back to the sins of his childhood, and the condition of his heart at the time.
The bent of my soul, from a child, was set against the Lord. Nor was this the effect of custom and education, for there was a sweet conspiracy of precept, discipline, and example ofthose with whom I conversed during this first part of my life, to carry me another way.
Nor can I charge the fault of this on my constitution of body or any such thing as might be alleged to proceed from my parents in a natural way.
For those lusts which are of the mind, and are not influenced by any constitution of body, were as strong, sensible, active, and prevalent as any other; nay, more than those which may be pretended to depend on the frame of the body.
And as my soul in its accursed inclinations was thus opposite to the Lord, so the opposition was of that strength and force as was not to be suppressed, much less to be overcome and subdued by the utmost care of parents and the best outward means. This is an undoubted fact.
I cannot at all conceive it consistent with the wisdom, goodness, or equity of God, to send me thus into the world, without any fault on my part. To say I was thus originally framed without respect to any sin chargeable on me, is a position so full of flat contradiction to all the notions I can entertain of the Deity, that I cannot think of it without horror, much less can I abelieve and give assent to it.
Penal, then, this corruption must be, as death and diseases are. And whereof can it be a punishment, if not of Adam's sin? While those things are so plain of fact, and the deduction so easy from them, whatever subtle arguments any use to overthrow this truth, I have no reason to be much shaken or moved with them or call the truth in question.
If once I am sure that God has done a thing, there is no room for disputing its equity. I was sure I was corrupt from my infancy.
Thomas Halyburton was a pastor and educator in St. Andrews during the 1700's. He asked to be buried next to Samuel Rutherford, and his wish was granted. And many feel that he has a pastor's heart much like Rutherford. In his memoirs, Halyburton thought back to the sins of his childhood, and the condition of his heart at the time.
The bent of my soul, from a child, was set against the Lord. Nor was this the effect of custom and education, for there was a sweet conspiracy of precept, discipline, and example ofthose with whom I conversed during this first part of my life, to carry me another way.
Nor can I charge the fault of this on my constitution of body or any such thing as might be alleged to proceed from my parents in a natural way.
For those lusts which are of the mind, and are not influenced by any constitution of body, were as strong, sensible, active, and prevalent as any other; nay, more than those which may be pretended to depend on the frame of the body.
And as my soul in its accursed inclinations was thus opposite to the Lord, so the opposition was of that strength and force as was not to be suppressed, much less to be overcome and subdued by the utmost care of parents and the best outward means. This is an undoubted fact.
I cannot at all conceive it consistent with the wisdom, goodness, or equity of God, to send me thus into the world, without any fault on my part. To say I was thus originally framed without respect to any sin chargeable on me, is a position so full of flat contradiction to all the notions I can entertain of the Deity, that I cannot think of it without horror, much less can I abelieve and give assent to it.
Penal, then, this corruption must be, as death and diseases are. And whereof can it be a punishment, if not of Adam's sin? While those things are so plain of fact, and the deduction so easy from them, whatever subtle arguments any use to overthrow this truth, I have no reason to be much shaken or moved with them or call the truth in question.
If once I am sure that God has done a thing, there is no room for disputing its equity. I was sure I was corrupt from my infancy.
