The Treasury of David
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
When people are living in
sin they go from bad to worse. At first they merely walk in the counsel
of the careless and ungodly, who forget God—the evil is rather practical
than habitual—but after that they become habituated to evil, and they stand
in the way of open sinners who willfully violate God’s commandments; and
if let alone, they go one step further, and become themselves pestilent
teachers and tempters of others, and thus they sit in the seat of the
scornful. They have taken their degree in vice, and as true Doctors of
Damnation they are installed, and are looked up to by others as Masters in
Belial. But the blessed man, the man to whom all the blessings of God belong,
can hold no communion with such characters as these. He keeps himself pure from
these lepers; he puts away evil things from him as garments spotted by the
flesh; he comes out from among the wicked, and goes outside the camp, bearing
the reproach of Christ. O for grace to be thus separate from sinners.
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