Q188. What difficulties stand in its way when it comes?
A sense of unworthiness, a guilty conscience, natural reason, unbelief, and arguments forged in hell and whispered by the devil into the heart against it.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
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Luke 5:8
“When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”
Mark 9:24
“And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”
Isaiah 6:5
“Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”
Romans 4:18-21