The less wicked are not truly good (John Love)

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All men are, in the sight of God, wicked. Those who seem less wicked than others are not truly good; secret desires of evil things lodge within them.

John Love, ‘Addresses to the People of Otaheite, Designed to Assist the Labour of Missionaries and Other Instructors of the Ignorant. To which is Prefixed A Short Address to the Members and Friends of the Missionary Society in London’ in Sermons Preached on Public Occasions: With Fifteen Addresses to the People of Otaheite, and A Serious Call Respecting a Mission to the River Indus (Glasgow: Maurice Ogle, 1826), pp 337-38.
 
The wicked spirits will say to you you are already good, and righteous, and happy. But believe them not, believe the book of Jehovah who cannot lie, and who is infinitely kind and gracious. Submit to the uneasiness of seeing yourselves lost creatures, and worthy of the wrath of Jehovah. Soon he will show you his love, and lift you up to heaven by his sweet consolations.

John Love, ‘Addresses to the People of Otaheite, Designed to Assist the Labour of Missionaries and Other Instructors of the Ignorant. To which is Prefixed A Short Address to the Members and Friends of the Missionary Society in London’ in Sermons Preached on Public Occasions: With Fifteen Addresses to the People of Otaheite, and A Serious Call Respecting a Mission to the River Indus (Glasgow: Maurice Ogle, 1826), p. 346.
 
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