deeper entering of the law
into their hearts which led Paul to an ever deeper faith and trust in
Jesus Christ. With a guilt, and a pollution, and a slavery to sin like
ours, salvation from sin would be absolutely impossible. Absolutely
impossible, that is, but for our Saviour, Jesus Christ. But with His
atoning blood and His Holy Spirit all things are possible--even our
salvation.

Let us choose, then, a minister like Mr. John Menzies. Let us read the
great books that make salvation difficult. Let us work out our own
salvation, day and night, with fear and trembling, and when Wisdom is
justified in her children, we shall be found justified among them. We
shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and
made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.

CHAPTER XV--MR. PRYWELL

'Search me, O God, and know my heart.'--_David_.

'Let a man examine himself.'--_Paul_.

'Look to yourselves.'--_John_.

'Know thyself.'--_Apollo_.

The year 1668 saw the publication of one of the deepest books in the
whole world, Dr. John Owen's _Remainders of Indwelling Sin in Believers_.
The heart-searching depth; the clear, fearless, humbling truth, the
intense spirituality, and the massive and masculine strength of John
Owen's book have all combined to make it one of the acknowledged
masterpieces of the great Puritan school. Had John Owen's style been at
all equal to his great learning, to the depth and the grasp of his mind,
and to the lofty holiness of his life, John Owen would have stood in the
very foremost and selectest rank of apostolical and evangelical
theologians. But in all his books Owen labours under the fatal drawback
of a bad style. A fine style, a style like that of Hooker, or Taylor, or
Bunyan, or Howe, or Leighton, or Law, is such a winning introduction to
their works and such an abiding charm and spell. The full title of Dr.
Owen's great work runs thus: _The Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevalency
of the Remainders of Indwelling Sin in Believers_--a title that will tell
all true students what awaits them when they have courage and enterprise
enough to address themselves to this supreme and all-essential subject.
Fourteen years after the publication of Dr. Owen's epoch-making book,
John Bunyan's _Holy War_ first saw the light. Equal in scriptural and in
experimental depth, as also in their spiritual loftiness and intensity,
those two books are as di