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“Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.”

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Book:True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc
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“Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.”

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Book:True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc
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“Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.”

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Book:True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc
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