This is a spectacular excerpt from Am I a Christian. Very good for the soul.
Ground 19.
I find such instability in my heart and ways, such unequal steps between the Lord and my idols, that I fear my whole heart is not come to the Lord; I am not his only. Oh the one heart, the united heart, the conjugal heart! But, alas! mine is parted between the Lord and idols; and I sometimes delight in the Lord, and sometimes in my idols and worldly contentment, they served the Lord, and they served their idols. (2 Kings 17:33)
I answer:
(1.) No man ever closed so fully with Christ, or had such a conjugal love, but had some inclinations to idols, by reason of the unregenerate part. Our union of faith and love is imperfect, as well as any other grace;the unregenerate carnal part cries still for, and would be at, its lovers. In heaven, our affections shall be wholly for the Lord.
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