{"id":974,"date":"2011-07-15T08:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=974"},"modified":"2011-07-15T08:06:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:06:25","slug":"before-and-after%e2%80%a6-by-alleine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Before and after\u2026 by Alleine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Before and after\u2026 <\/strong><em>by Alleine<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Before<\/strong> conversion man seeks to cover himself with his own<br \/>\nfig-leaves, and to make himself whole by his duties.<br \/>\nHe is apt to trust in himself, and set up his own righteousness,<br \/>\nand to reckon his counters for gold, and not to submit to the<br \/>\nrighteousness of God. But conversion changes his mind;<br \/>\nnow he counts his own righteousness as filthy rags.<br \/>\nHe casts it off, as a man would the venomous tatters<br \/>\nof a nasty beggar. Now he is brought to poverty of spirit, complains of and condemns himself, and all his inventory is \u201cpoor, and<br \/>\nmiserable, and wretched, and blind, and naked\u201d.He sees a world of iniquity in his holy things, and calls his once idolized righteousness but filth and loss; and would not for a thousand worlds be found in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before and after\u2026 by Alleine Before conversion man seeks to cover himself with his own fig-leaves, and to make himself whole by his duties. He is apt to trust in himself, and set up his own righteousness, and to reckon his counters for gold, and not to submit to the righteousness of God. But conversion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regeneration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}