Humbleness the Work of True Christian

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

2 Kings 22:19

Because your heart was tender, and you have humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place…

John Newton wrote a book about grace in the blade, and grace in the ear, and grace in the full corn in the ear. A very talkative body said to him, "I have been reading your valuable book, Mr. Newton; it is a splendid work; and when I came to that part, 'the full corn in the ear' I thought how wonderfully you had described me." "Oh," replied Mr. Newton, "but you could not have read the book rightly, for it is one of the marks of the full corn in the ear, that it hangs its head very low."

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