ERRORS IN PRAYER. 845 be so potent, if we ourselves did not put arms into his hands. The world would not be so powerful an enchantress, if we did not assist the enchantment, by volun- tarily yielding to it ; by insensibly forsak- ing him who is our strength. We make apologies for yielding to both by plead- ing their power and our own weakness. But the inability to resist is of our QWII making. Both enemies are indeedpower- ful, but they are not irresistible. If we assert the contrary, is it not virtually saying, " Greater are they that areagainst us than He that is for us. ?" But we are traitors to our own cause ; we are conquered by our own consent ; we surrender, not so much because the conqueror is powerful, as because the conquered is willing. Without diminishing any thing of His grace and glory, to Whom every good thought we think, every victory over sin we obtain, is owing ; may it not add to our happiness, even in heaven, to look Q5
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