Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

wrought in your soul.
You have clothed yourself with a self-righteous
garment to cover up the deformity of sin; but this is
not the remedy. You know not what true
conversion is. The old man is not dead in you. You
have a form of godliness, but not the cleansing
power of God. You can and do talk and write
smoothly, and as far as your words go, they may
possibly be correct; but the true language of the
heart is not spoken. You are enough acquainted
with yourself to know this. Your case is perilous;
yet God pities you, and will save you if you fall all
broken at His feet, feeling your impurity and
vileness, your rottenness of soul, without the
transforming power of God.
My brother, I do not wish to discourage you,
but to lead you to investigate your motives and acts
as in the light of eternity. Break away from Satan's
snare. Do not, I beg of you, lead any person to
think of you in a more elevated light than you can
bear, for when this deception shall be removed, and
your true self appear as you are, there will be a
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