John Ball writes;
There are many blessings that our Lord has granted us in our earthly existence - love, friendship, good food, and not least, glimpses of the Divine - his justice, his truth, his eternal and boundless charity towards we sinners.
But all around us, in all ages, there is selfishness and folly. There are many who claim a certain righteousness or godliness for themselves.
It is a trap that I fear to fall into myself.
In these last days folly is all around, as the Apostle Paul wrote in his second letter to Timothy;
'This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves; covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambrea withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men,.....'
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