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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

We have so much of the Pharisee in us by nature, that it is sometimes well that our good is hid from us... It is a good life which is attended with a faith of righteousness and a sense of corruption. While I know Christ’s righteousness, I shall the less care to know my own holiness. To be holy is necessary; to know it, sometimes a temptation.
John Owen