[Pryr-1.2-47] There is no avoiding this fatal Error, except to deeply
realize the great Truth, that all our own Activity and Working has no Good in
it, & can do no Good to us, unless it leads and turns us to the Light and
Spirit of God. That is the only way to bring
Life and Salvation into the Soul: Stretch forth your Hand, said our Lord to the
Man that had a withered Hand; he did so, and it was immediately made whole as
the other.
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9Departing from there, He went into their synagogue. 10 And a man was there whose
hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, “Is it lawful to heal on
the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse Him of impiety and breaking the Law.
.11 And He said to
them, “What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit
on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 So “How much more
valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the
Sabbath.”
13 And then He said
to the man, “Stretch out your hand!” And the man stretched it out, and it was restored
to normal, like the other.
14 But the
Pharisees went out and conspired against Him, as to how they might destroy Him & stop him because his following was growing.
Gospel
of St Matthew, chapter 12.
New American Standard bible
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