What are you in yourself but the mere well? The grace which you possess is a communicated grace. We have this precious treasure in earthen vessels. All that is really holy and gracious in us, springs not from our fallen nature, but, like “every good and perfect gift, cometh down from the Father of Lights.” It is the spontaneous outflowing of the heart of God, the free, unmerited bestowment of his sovereign mercy. Then what meekness of heart, what profound humility of mind, ought to mark you! What a prostration of every form of self, self-confidence, self-seeking, self-boasting, should there be, as reasonably becometh those who have nothing but what they have received, and whom free and sovereign grace alone has distinguished from others!
Octavius Winslow — The Inner Life: Its Nature, Relapse, and Recovery (London: John Farquhar Shaw, 1850), p. 92
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