Fragment: Conscience and Conduct Set to Rights

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If the conscience has been set to rights by the blood of the cross, in reference to the claims of God, the conduct must be set to rights by the holiness of the cross, in reference to the claims of practical righteousness. These things must never be separated. God has joined them together, and let no man put them asunder. The hallowed union will never be dissolved by any mind governed by pure gospel morality. Alas! it is easy to profess the principles of grace, while the practice and power thereof are completely denied. This is vain, and worse than vain. "He that doeth not righteousness, is not of God." (1 John 3:1010In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. (1 John 3:10).)
C. H. M.