Secret sinning puts far more respect & fear upon men than upon God. Thomas Brooks Puritan Quote

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Secret sinning puts far more respect & fear upon men than upon God. Thomas Brooks Puritan Quote

WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2019

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"Privy Key of Heaven": 'Secret (sin - ed.) sinning puts far more respect and fear upon men than upon God. Thou wilt be unjust in secret, and wanton in secret, and unclean in secret, and treacherous in secret, etc., and why, but because thou art afraid that such or such men should know it, or that such and such friends should know it, or that such and such relations should know it? Ah! poor wretch, art thou afraid of the eye of a man, of a man that shall die, and of the son of man, which shall be made as grass? Isaiah 51:12, and yet not tremble under his eye, "whose eyes are as a flame of fire, sharp and terrible, such as pierce into the inward parts?" Revelation 1:14; Heb 4:13. Ah! how full of atheism is that man's heart, that tacitly saith, "If my sins be but hid from the eyes of the world, I do not care though the Lord knows them, though the Lord strictly observes them, though the Lord sets a mark, a memorandum upon them." What is this, O man, but to brave it out with God, and to tempt him, and provoke him to his very face, "who is light, and in whom there is no darkness at all"? 1 John 1:5-6. Ah! sinner, sinner, can man damn thee? can man disinherit thee? can man fill thy conscience with horrors and terrors? can man make thy life a very hell? can man bar the gates of glory against thee? can man speak thee into the grave by a word of his mouth? and after all, can man cast thee into endless, easeless, and remediless torments? Oh no! Can God do all this? Oh yes! Why, then, doth not thy heart stand more in awe of the eye of the great God, than it doth of the eye of a poor, weak, mortal man?

I have insisted the longer on this particular, because there is not any one thing in all the world that doth more hinder secret communion with God and secret prayer, than secret sins. And oh that you would all make it your great business to watch against secret sins, and to pray against secret sins, and to mourn over secret sins, and deeply to judge and condemn yourselves for secret sins, and carefully and conscientiously to shun and avoid all occasions and provocations that may be as fuel to secret sins.

Certainly there are no men or women that are so sincere and serious in closet-prayer, or that are so frequent, so fervent, so constant in closet-prayer, or that are so delightful, so resolute, so undaunted, or so unwearied in closet-prayer, as those that keep themselves most clear and free from secret sins.'

- Thomas Brooks, https://www.facebook.com/groups/covenanter.org/

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Secret Sins: I Urge All Pretenders to Detest, to Hate and Renounce Their Secret Sins, by Charles Spurgeon and others (Scroll down to free SWRB MP3s).

Killing Remaining Sin, Mortification, Holiness & Hell, By John Owen, John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, Dr. Joel Beeke, and Others (Scroll down to free SWRB MP3s).

Pray and Be Alone With God By Paul Washer, George Mueller, Dr. Joel Beeke, Charles Spurgeon, Greg Price, John Calvin, Dr. Steven Dilday, William Guthrie, J.C. Ryle, and Others (Free MP3s, Books, Videos - Scroll Down To Free SWRB Reformation Resources)

"Once, while crossing the Atlantic on the SS Sardinian in August 1877, his ship ran into thick fog. He explained to the captain that he needed to be in Quebec by the following afternoon, but Captain Joseph E Dutton (later known as "Holy Joe") said that he was slowing the ship down for safety and Müller's appointment would have to be missed. Müller asked to use the chartroom to pray for the lifting of the fog. The captain followed him down, claiming it would be a waste of time. After Müller prayed, the captain started to pray, but Müller stopped him; partly because of the captain's unbelief, but mainly because he believed the prayer had already been answered. When the two men went back to the bridge, they found the fog had lifted. The captain became a Christian shortly afterwards. Müller's faith in God strengthened day by day and he spent hours in daily prayer and Bible reading -- indeed, it was his practice, in later years, to read through the entire Bible four times a year." - Wikipedia, Steer, p. 177 and Warne, p. 230.

Secret (sin - ed.) sinning puts far more respect and fear upon men than upon God. - Thomas Brooks (Puritan Quote)

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