"Heart-work is hard work indeed. To shuffle over religious
duties with a loose and careless spirit, will cost no great difficulties; but
to set yourself before the Lord, and to tie up your loose and vain thoughts to
a constant and serious attendance upon Him: this will cost you something. To
attain ease and dexterity of language in prayer and to be able to put your
meaning into appropriate and fitting expressions is easy; but to get your heart
broken for sin while you are actually confessing it; melted with free grace
even while you are blessing God for it; to be really ashamed and humbled
through the awareness of God's infinite holiness, and to keep your heart in
this state not only in, but after these duties, will surely cost you some
groans and travailing pain of soul." John Flavel
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