Q60 THE BORDERERS® putable to say with one party, " straight is the gate and narrow is the way ;" but the company of the other lets you see that it is not so easy to enter in at that gate, and to walk in that way, as you had flat- tered yourselfyou should have found it. To you the world is by far the most formidable foe of the triple alliance, of the three confederate enemies, which the Scripture tells us war against the soul. We have presumed that your opinions may not be very erroneous, but there are moral as well as speculative heresies, of which worldliness is the originating prin- ciple, and in which it is the practical operator. The WORLD is the grand heresiarch. There are many more who " love the world, and the things of the world," than who care whether doc- trines are true or false. While they themselves are let alone to follow their own devices ; while they are left undis- turbed to their own pursuits ; you may propound or controvert, or adopt any opinion, sound or heretical, with equally
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