A little Sedgwick Sabbath Reading

Reasons to move you to search your hearts in this particular are these:

1. Many among you (who profess and have a name, I hope, the truth also of grace) do not get on. You do not make progress , nor have you advanced yourselves in your spiritual condition.

Though the Lord has given you plentiful and rich means, yet what you were many years ago, the same you are now. A man may say of you, as we do of our friends whom we see perhaps once in ten years, that they look and are just as we found and left them then. So many of you, after many years preaching and hearing, are just as you were; you have not attained to any further perfection in holiness.

Now this is an ill symptom, for a staying heart is seldom otherwise a decaying heart. Though creation is perfect at once, yet it is not so with sanctification. The old saying is, grace is either getting or losing: like a river, either fuller or lesser, or like an oak, growing or dying.

Christ's Counsel to His Languishing Church pg 11 Soli Deo Gloria Publications