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for certainly there is one Idol more in your house undiscovered, and that must be defaced too. True, says Chromatius, there is so indeed, there is one all of beaten gold, it cost 200 l. I would fain have saved it; but here take my keys again, you shall find it locked up fast in my chest, take it and break it in pieces; which done, the holy man prayed, and Chromatius was healed. The moral of this story is this: We are all spiritually sick, full of wounds and putrefied sores; Christ our spiritual Physician ⟨p. 260⟩tells us, that if we will be cured, we must break off our sins by repentance. Now this we are willing to do in part, but not in whole; we would fain keep one Delilah, one darling beloved sin, but it must not be, there must not be one sin unrepented of; we must repent as well for our Achans as our Absaloms, our Rimmons as our Mammons, our Davids as our Goliaths, our covert as well as our open sins, our loved as well as our loathed lusts, our heart abominations as well as our gross transgressions, our Babe iniquities as well as our Giant-like provocations; our repentance must be universal, or 'twill be to no purpose.

for certainly there is one Idol more in your house undiscovered, and that must be defaced too. True, sayes Chromatius, there is so indeed, there is one all of beaten gold, it cost 200 l. I would fain have saved it; but here take my keys again, you shall find it locked up fast in my chest, take it and break it in pieces; which done, the holy man prayed, and Chromatius was healed. The moral of this story is this: We are all spiritually sick, full of wounds and putrified sores; Christ our spiritual Physician ⟨p. 260⟩tells us, that if we will be cured, we must break off our sins by repentance. Now this we are willing to do in part, but not in whole; we would fain keep one Dalilah, one darling beloved sin, but it must not be, there must not be one sin unrepented of; we must repent as well for our Achans as our Absaloms, our Rimmons as our Mammons, our Davids as our Goliahs, our covert as well as our open sins, our loved as well as our loathed lusts, our heart abominations as well as our gross transgressions, our Babe iniquities as well as our Giant-like provocations; our repentance must be universal, or 'twill be to no purpose.