'Such earnestness and thoroughness of endeavors, is the ordinary means that God makes use of to bring people into an acquaintance with themselves, to a sight of their own hearts, to a sense of their own helplessness, and to a despair on their own strength and righteousness . . . It is experience of ourselves , and finding what we are, that God commonly makes use of as the means of bringing us off all dependence on ourselves . . . It is therefore quite a wrong notion that some entertain, that the more they do, the more they shall depend on it. Whereas the reverse is true; the more they do, or the more thorough they are in seeking, the less will they be likely to rest in their doings, and the sooner will they see the vanity of all that they do. -J. Edwards'
Heroes, Murray, pp. 14
