He may find the road unpleasant, full
of thorns, and briars, and pit-falls; for believe me, however broad
the road is which leads to destruction, it is only the GATE of it
which is easy and comfortable; it soon gets darker and rougher, that
road of sin; and the further you walk along it, the uglier and more
wretched a road it is: but all the misery which it gives to a man is
only useless remorse, unless he fairly repents, and turns out of that
road into the path which leads to life.
Now the one great business of foolish man in all times has been to
save his soul (as he calls it) without doing right; to go to heaven
(as he calls it) without walking the road which leads to heaven. It
is a folly and a dream. For no man can get to heaven, unless he be
heavenly; and being heavenly is simply being good, and neither more
or less. And sin is death, and no man can save his soul alive, while
it is dead in sin. Still men have been trying to do it in all ages
and countries; and as soon as one plan has failed, they have tried
some new one; and have invented some false repentance which was to
serve instead of the true one.
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