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{Since the Heavenly Trade Is the Best Trade…
Exhortation to Those Who Began the Heavenly Trade, But Have Backslidden
Advice: Search Out the Causes of Your Soul’s Decay and Get Them Removed}
If you want to recover from your wasting decays in this heavenly trade, search out the causes and get them removed.1313 If a person has a kind of trade that is good and may be driven in the worst of times and that will ensure advantage if followed, there must be something more than ordinarily wrong if that person’s trade fails and decays. Such is Christianity: it will maintain and enrich its followers—if there is not something wrong with the follower. There must therefore be some great causes and miscarriages that throw back such professors of Christianity and bring a wasting disease on the prosperity of their souls. Some of the causes are these:
1313Get them removed is not merely a quaint way of speaking; it emphasizes that we cannot do it on our own strength.
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