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Excerpt from Expository Thoughts on Pilgrim's Progress
All such cloaks are but as rags in the eyes of God, and man stands condemned for his sins. Sin from its very nature clothes a man with rags, both literally and spiritually. The prodigal could not travel many years in the way of sin before he was clothed in rags in the true sense of the term; and like him, many men and we men are walking our streets in rags, because they have been traveling along the paths of transgression. It costs a good bit to be a sinner, and when the money is all spent, then all that sin gives to man is rags for his body and husk for his food. The very counte nance of the sinner makes him known. Place ten good, pure, honest, upright young men or women together, and beside them place ten who are of the world, who find satisfaction in eating, drinking and being merry, and you will readily be enabled to tell who are the good, and who are the bad. The very eye, the expression will bespeak the character of each. Compare the countenances of men and women in prisons and dens of iniquity, with those of men and women in churches, and you will have many living witnesses and proofs of the wages of sin as they appear in the wicked, while the righteous show by their very countenance that they are good and pure, for they have been cleansed and clothed in white robes of righteousness; the old man is put off with his rags, and the new man put on with the robe of righteousness.
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