Happiness is the result of holiness: and as it was a holy, so it was a happy state.
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And herein believers have the advantage of Adam, that they can never totally or finally fall away from grace.
They seek God indeed, yet not for himself, but for themselves. They seek him not at all, but for their own welfare: so their whole life is woven into one web of practical blasphemy; making God the means, and self their e…
Not God—but man himself was the cause of his ruin. God made him upright; his Creator set him up—but he threw himself down.
Education may chain up men's lusts—but cannot change their hearts.
Free grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into the gulf of misery.