“Sin is so multiform that everyone has their pet sin of which they above all experience the power and from which they need deliverance. And the gospel is so full of riches that one moment it can enlighten and comfort a seeker-of-salvation with one truth and the next with another. This diversity in conversion is something we need to respect. We may not simply make one type the standard and apply it to all others. We must accept the varied hidden and amazing leadings of the Holy Spirit. We may no more demand from everyone a ‘penitential struggle’ and ‘breakthrough’ period of dread and despair and a sudden subsequent surge of peace and joy, than we may at once infer the authenticity or inauthenticity of conversion from a variety of intense feelings and odd incidents.”Reformed Reader
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