Excerpt from The Rest of Faith N 0 need then for Christians to become angry at injuries they would be sweetly conscious that their blood is precious in His sight. N 0 need to stand up for their reputation against malicious offenders. N O need then to be putting self forward. Oh! What a. Hidden monster is little self! It is only little indeed, and herein is seen its greatness as an enemy to the soul. It is a little thing to be seeking to advance, a mean thing to set forward, but when set forward a devil to destroy and tear down, and annihilate everything noble, and pure, and holy. N o, in a true and complete consecra tion, self would be given to God and left on His altar to be consumed in His service. May we not safely say that all difficulties arising in churches or in communities come from an undue attention to self. But God sees this, and has distinctly ordered that self shall be laid down at His feet. It is this which marks the new creature. Old things were full of self. The new things, therefore, are rightly supposed to be free from self. Where in reality they are not so, there must either be fearful deception or fearful ignorance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.