When a man on some outward respects forsakes the practice of any sin, men may perhaps look on him as a changed man. God knows that to his former iniquity he has added cursed hypocrisy, and is now on a safer path to hell than he was before. He has got another heart than he had, that is more cunning; not a new heart, that is more holy. (Overcoming Sin and Temptation p70)
This is what we must teach our children! Perhaps we won't have them read John Owen to find it, but we
must impress upon them that repentance is not merely the outward forsaking of practicing a particular sin, but that we need a new heart.
He that changes pride for worldliness, sensuality for Pharisaism, vanity in himself to the contempt of others, let him not think that he has mortified the sin that he seems to have left. He has changed his master, but is a servant still. (ibid. p71)
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