Too often, however, the consciousness of inconsistency, carelessness, and unspirituality, damps our song. But let every recollection of our sin be accompanied with an humble yet assured confidence in the Lord's pardoning grace. The abominations of a desperately wicked and unsearchably deceitful heart may well lead us to "abhor ourselves in dust and ashes." Yet in the lowest depths of abasement, the Saviour's blood, applied to the conscience, "cleanseth from all sin." He who once "passed by us, and saw us polluted in our blood, and said unto us, when we were in our blood, Live;" still "holdeth our souls in life"—covering our daily infirmities, and maintaining our everlasting acceptance before God.

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