Luke 5:33-34 And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees… When Dr. John Mason Good, the distinguished and excellent author of the "Book of Nature," was on his death-bed he said, "I have taken what unfortunately the generality of Christians too much take. I have taken the middle walk of Christianity. I have endeavoured to live up to its duties and doctrines, but I have lived below its privileges." Is not this, alas l but too true of the great body of those of us who call ourselves Christians, and who may indeed be so? Are we not living below the spirituality, and of course without the enjoyment, which God designs for His children, and so without the example and usefulness that should mark the life of every Christian? Far better, with Whitefield, to pray that he might be "an extraordinary Christian," and to endeavour, by God's grace, so to live as to be an example to all of a true and living Christianity. Parallel Verses KJV: And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? |
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