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by C. H. Spurgeon

The Ass Wiser Than the Sinner

“Yotc ca7i7ioi drive a didl ass 17ito the fire that is kindled before his eyes” The ungodly are far more brutish, for they choose the way of destruction, and rush with eagerness into the flames of hell. “Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird,” and yet men see the net, and hasten into it. Sinners take more pains to go to hell than the saints to go to heaven. They are more bold to destroy themselves than saints are in their salvation. What greater proof can we have of the madness of their hearts, and what plainer evidence that salvation is not by the will of man, but by grace alone?

Lord, save me and mine from that obstinate love of sin which makes men more brutish than the ox and the ass.

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