the rise and fall of peter: a cure for backsliding & comfort for the backslider

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THE FALLEN SAINT RESTORED

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Lord, give us in the first place thy sustaining grace which maypreserve us from the danger of great and scandalous offenses. But ifthy wisdom finds it otherwise requisite, to punish our presumptions

with a temporary desertion and withdrawal of thy power, yet neverdeny us that restoring grace which may re-establish us in thy favour.Give us, if not the grace of standing, yet the grace of weeping; that,though we cannot be innocent, we may be repentant.

Quotable Quotes

Every man would love God more if he could love himself less

If he is not willing to own Christ, he will be quick to deny him.

We know the devil never overcomes any who is not first overcome by self

The devil tempts us that he may draw us into sin; but he tempts us with weakinstruments that he may drive us to despair.

Such a recovery of faith proceeds by degrees, from weakness unto strength, from fearunto confidence

Though the fiery darts of the devil may at first find an entrance, yet when they cometo the bottom of a faithful heart they find there a rock of salvation from where they are

driven back into the face of him that threw them.

There is ever a weeping that follows sin. Either such a desperate weeping as has thatdreadful concomitant added to it; gnashing of teeth, or such as repentant weeping as

is sealed up, from the mouth of Christ himself, with a blessing until the day of

redemption.

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