It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin. (Thomas Brooks)

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Thomas Brooks

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