Men are unwilling to know the worst of themselves, and prone to think their qualifications better than they are, that they may avoid despair. Others please and content themselves without any assurance of their interest in Christ, because they think that it is not necessary to salvation, and that but few attain to it: and in this they show little love to Christ, or to their own souls. Some foster doubts of salvation as signs of humility, though they will hypocritically complain of them. Many misspend their time in poring upon their own hearts, to find out some evidence of their interest in Christ, when they should rather be employed in receiving Christ, and walking in Him, by a confident faith.
Walter Marshall — The Gospel-Mystery of Sanctification, Direction X (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1859), p. 178
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