the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Surely they are my people children that will not lie. Isaiah 63:8. And in their mouth was found no guile. Revelation 14:5. Therefore, suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. Mark 10:14.
Bare morality, is at best, but patchwork. It is attempting to mend our lives, without the necessary means; when instead of this, we should rather first renounce all our own works, come to Christ, without guile and reserve, and in a word turn and be like a child; since the privilege of adoption, and the baptismal covenant, is not only lost by gross and outward immoralities, but even by guile and worldly mindedness. Therefore, moral men must also be born again and become of a harmless and child-like, though not a childish disposition, as many fanciful sectarian children now, who sometimes trifle and play, as it were, with the wounds of Christ, and the most sacred things, or at least do not treat them reverently enough.
Behold, what wondrous grace
The Father has bestowed
On sinners of a mortal race,
To call them sons of God.
A hope so much divine
May trials well endure,
May purge our souls from sense and sin,
As Christ the Lord is pure.
If in my Father’s love
I share a filial part.
Send down thy spirit like a dove,
To rest upon my heart.
