{"id":2287,"date":"2012-10-06T07:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T07:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2012-10-06T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T07:28:29","slug":"spiritual-fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Fragment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spiritual Fragment <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I remember, that after my poor heart had wandered from the sweet  enjoyment of the Lord, and I had got entangled with some flesh-pleasing  idols, the Lord brought me feelingly into chapter xvi. of Ezekiel, for  that chapter contains a solemn figure of the wandering, backsliding  heart of a child of God. Almost every sentence of it cut me up, and I  said to myself, This is my case. In a spiritual sense, I am this vile  fornicator, I have acted this base part; whatever becomes of these base  characters in the end, I must go with them. But I think I shall never  forget the conclusion, for a blessed one it is: \u201cAnd I will establish my  covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; that thou  mayest remember and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more  because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee, for all that thou  hast done, saith the Lord God.\u201d (Ezek. xvi. 62, 63.) This, this is  matchless grace. Here the Lord shames us out of our sins, and kisses us  into obedience. \u2013 Gadsby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiritual Fragment I remember, that after my poor heart had wandered from the sweet enjoyment of the Lord, and I had got entangled with some flesh-pleasing idols, the Lord brought me feelingly into chapter xvi. of Ezekiel, for that chapter contains a solemn figure of the wandering, backsliding heart of a child of God. Almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-william-gadsby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}