A section in Richard Lovelace’s monumental Dynamics of Spiritual Life caught my attention. The section of the book deals with the role the flesh and the world play in keeping revival from taking place. Borrowing liberally from Jonathan Edwards he observes that “spiritual pride is secretive, it is hard to detect except through its effects.”^a Quoting Edwards:

The spiritually proud person is apt to find fault with other saints, that they are low in grace; and to be much in observing how cold and dead they are; and being quick to discern and take notice of their deficiencies. But the eminently humble Christian has so much to do at home…that heis not apt to be very busy with other hearts.

Lovelace elaborates by saying that the eminently “humble Christian is as it were clothed with lowliness.”

Lovelace, 245 (back)

Lovelace, 245

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