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From Meditations on the Epistles of John, by Samuel Froehlich
Now, if one has heard this witnessing and realizes and admits that he cannot yet
find the character of a child of God in himself and is troubled about it, one
must not despair nor doubt but much more believe in Christ the Light, and such
impartial self-knowledge and confession is a hungering and thirsting after
righteousness, to which satiety is promised (Matthew 5:6):
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they
shall be filled."
and although this hunger and thirst is not yet repletion, it nevertheless is
blessed, for it is the return to the fellowship of God; God lets the upright
succeed and to the humble He gives grace. However, a pardoned one shall then
take heed that he consider no deviation from the light insignificant, as if this
and that could not harm him, but shall preserve and purify himself from all that
is unclean which would force itself upon him or he can fall again from grace.
Here also self-deception is our worst enemy.
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Now, if one has heard this witnessing and realizes and admits that he cannot yet
find the character of a child of God in himself and is troubled about it, one
must not despair nor doubt but much more believe in Christ the Light, and such
impartial self-knowledge and confession is a hungering and thirsting after
righteousness, to which satiety is promised (Matthew 5:6):
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they
shall be filled."
and although this hunger and thirst is not yet repletion, it nevertheless is
blessed, for it is the return to the fellowship of God; God lets the upright
succeed and to the humble He gives grace. However, a pardoned one shall then
take heed that he consider no deviation from the light insignificant, as if this
and that could not harm him, but shall preserve and purify himself from all that
is unclean which would force itself upon him or he can fall again from grace.
Here also self-deception is our worst enemy.