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They are made feelingly to understand the Apostle's words in a spiritual sense "Thou fool! that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die." The word of God, when it enters into the soul, kills before it makes alive; and slain sinners alone, feel the worth of a living Saviour. Total depravity is a cardinal point held by many as a creed, but experienced by few only as a fact; and it is this "handful of corn upon the top of the mountains," sown by God's hand, who are killed Tracts for the People. No. 40. 1419.7.169° to all hopes from self, quickened by God's Spirit, watered by Divine care, and reserved for the harvest to the glory of electing love and redeeming blood, such only rightly understand the meaning of total depravity. In their song of praise before the throne, saints are not unmindful of this foundation truth, their anthem is, "Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever." But God causes His people to know something experimentally of "deaths oft"-death upon the promise, death upon their worldly prospects, death upon their spiritual hopes, death upon their Gospel usefulness; and all this to exalt Christ, who has said, "I am the resurrection and the life." When Satan laid the trap for man's fall, he used this bait-"Ye shall be as gods." "He was a liar from the beginning," so his promise failed of fulfilment; but he implanted the fatal desire for power which has worked effectually in every child of Adam since the fall. Herein we see the root of Arminianism; all the branches, leaves, blossoms, and fruit of which spring out of this devilish stock -"Ye shall be as gods." Much of the desire to do good that looks so religious is nothing more nor less than a fibre of this root. Much of the morbid sensitiveness of some minds, that are constantly grieving and repining because they see no fruit of their labour, is neither more nor less than a cutting from the old tree-"Ye shall be as gods," The |