Spirit in which Christians...,The - old title "On Discipline"

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The spirit in which Christians seeking to walk in the truth should deal with evil arising among them.

We ought to remember what we are in ourselves when we talk about exercising discipline; it is an amazingly solemn thing. When I reflect that I am a poor sinner, saved by mercy, standing only in Jesus Christ for acceptance, in myself vile, it is, evidently, an awful thing to take discipline into my hands. Who can judge save God? This is my first thought.

Here I stand, as nothing, in the midst of persons dear to the Lord, whom I must look upon and esteem better than myself, in the consciousness of my own sinfulness and nothingness before the Lord; and to talk of exercising discipline! - it is a very solemn thought…

32 pages – Pamphlet – Author: J. N. Darby