MY guilty conscience often condemns me—my backslidings often condemn me — my inward and outward slips and falls often condemn me, and my own heart often proves me perverse. It is so, to our shame and sorrow. But shall these things alter the eternal purpose of God? Shall the inward condemnations of conscience cancel the grand act of justification on the part of Jehovah? Shall doubts, fears, sinkings, despondencies and exercises, stretch forth their hands to blot the believer’s name out of the Book of Life? Shall they dash away the validity and efficacy of the blood of sprinkling, nullify the work of the Son of God, and prove the Holy Ghost a liar? They may tease, they may harass, they may distress, they may perplex, but they shall not eventually condemn, for “there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,” and he that believes in Jesus is passed from death unto life, and from condemnation unto justification.—J. C. Philpot.