SAFE IN HIS HANDS
There is an old ploughman in the country I sometimes talk with, and he often says, though in uncouth words, some precious things. He said to me one day, “The other day, sir, the devil was tempting me and I tried to answer him; but I found he was an old lawyer, and understood the law a great deal better than I did, so I gave over, and would not argue with him any more, so I said to him, ‘What do you trouble me for?’ ‘Why,’ said he, ‘about your soul.’ ‘Oh!’ said I, ‘that is no business of mine; I have given my soul over into the hand of Christ, I have transferred everything to him; if you want an answer to your doubts and queries, you must apply to my Advocate.'” Charles H. Spurgeon, as reported in George Sweeting’s excellent new book, Great Quotes and Illustrations, (Word, Waco, Texas, 1985), page 8.
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