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Fears, founded on your own badness, disturbing and hindering your peace with God, are as senseless as trust in your own goodness, as giving a ground of peace.
There is no communion in conscience. In it I am alone. So are you. In order to communion I must have nothing to settle with conscience. A purged conscience is. the basis of communion.
In order to have practical power I must not only have the thing, but know that I have it. Suppose a man possessed all the wealth of India, and did not know he had it, it is practically useless to him,