Let us make thorough work of it!

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(James Smith, "The Early and the Latter Rain" 1856)

"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Psalm 139:23-24

Let us commence the work of self-examination at once, and let us be impartial in the work . . .
  sparing no sin,
  tampering with no lust,
  listening to no temptation!

And let us make thorough work of it! Let every sin we detect be confessed over the blood of atonement; let us . . .
  deplore it,
  grieve over it,
  seek the pardon of it, and
  pray for grace at once to depart from it!
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