From "The Chill of Love" by Horatius Bonar
Horatius Bonar was a Free Church of Scotland minister, poet and hymn writer during the middle of the 19th Century. This is from his sermon, " The Chill of Love " "Let us notice some of the things which decrease when sin increases. 1. As iniquity increases, faith decreases. Unbelief overflows like a deluge. One sin lets loose another. Faith withers down; dies out, like a flower in a desert. 2. As iniquity increases, truth decreases. For error is sin, and sin is error; so that truth and sin cannot co-exist. Sin expels truth, both from the heart and from the world; from the individual saint, and from the church at large. Darkness dispossesses light. 3. As iniquity increases, righteousness and holiness decrease. A man cannot be both holy and unholy; the encroachments of sin can leave no room for holiness at all. Inch by inch, iniquity creeps in and creeps along. 4. As iniquity increases, religion decreases. Sin drives religion out of the heart, out of the church, ou...