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Wednesday, July 29, 2026"); br.writeln("

Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions]. It is because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them. They practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves; they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them, and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem, and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications.

And thus their self-denials do only that for them, which indulgences do for other people—they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls; and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self."); br.writeln("

... William Law (1686-1761), The Spirit of Prayer [1749], London: E. Justins for Ogles, Duncan, and Cochran, 1816, p. 77-78"); br.writeln("(see the book; see also Matt. 6:16-18; Rom. 14:17; 1 Cor. 8:8; Col. 2:20-23; Heb. 13:9; more at Holiness, Kingdom, Legalism, Nature, Progress, Self)"); br.writeln("

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