the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Martha Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, Luke 10:41. Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23,
As the virtue of a strong spirituous liquor evaporates by degrees in a vial which is not closely stopped, in like manner, the life and power of the spirit insensibly vanishes away, if the heart is not kept with all diligence. Of the former, remains only water; of the latter, nothing but the form of religion; or perhaps some false principles are errors are crept in. Therefore, many must be tried and sifted, that they may know, like Hezekiah, what is in their hearts. 2 Chronicles 32:31. Consequently, what more needful, than to take heed to our spirits, and to keep close to the written word; for as the latter times draw nearer, the more plausible will errors and seducements appear, both on your right hand, and on your left, to be drawn off from the truth, either by the false worldly prudence, or the pretended, spiritual form of fanatics.
Lord, permit me not to be,
A stranger to myself and thee;
Amidst a thousand thoughts I rove,
Forgetful of my highest love.
Call me away from flesh and sense,
One sovereign word can draw me thence,
I would obey the voice divine,
And all inferior things resign.
Be earth with all her scenes withdrawn,
Let noise and vanity begone;
In secret silence of the mind,
My heaven and there my God I find,
