Cause of Infidelity

The secret cause of infidelity is perhaps invariably a darkness in the mind, produced by wrong affections, by the love of sin in the heart, by such a state of things there that the soul feels anxious and uneasy in the presence of God, and gloomy beneath the light of his attributes. Nothing bat God's Spirit can overcome that. Such a state of things will bring a pillar of cloud and darkness between the soul and God, and will make the soul desire and endeavour to see God in other lights than those in which he shines in the word of the truth of the Gospel. Hence the beginning, the existence, and the increase of error. If there were a clear, open, frank, trusting, sunny heart, towards God, there would be a clear, unmistakeable, spiritual view of God. And hence the appointed condemnation we everywhere meet with in God's Word against error and infidelity, as being not only the consequence of guilt, but in itself guilt.--Anon