"Ah, Christians, did Christ stoop low, and will you be stout, proud, and high? Was He content to be accounted a worm, a wine-bibber, an enemy to Caesar, a friend of publicans and sinners, a devil, and must you be all in a flame when vain men make little account of you?
Was He willing to be a curse, a reproach for you, and will you shrug, and shrink, and faint, and fret when you are reproached for his name. Did Jesus Christ stoop so low as to wash His disciple's feet, and are you so stout, proud and sturdy that you cannot hear together, nor pray together, nor sit at the table of the Lord together, though you all hope at last to sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven? Shall one heaven hold you at last; and shall not one house, one table, one church hold you here?" Thomas Brooks.
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