William Bridge, Trace All Your Sins to the “Head” Sin
The more you are humbled by God’s free love and grace, the more you will be humbled and the less discouraged…If you will be truly humbled and not be discouraged [depressed]…then trace all your sins to your unbelief and lay the stress and weight of all your sorrow upon that sin.
…if a man can trace every sin to the fountain, the head sin, he will be most humbled. Now what is the great sin, the fountain of sin, the head of all your sins, but unbelief…if you can present God to your soul under the notion of his general goodness, as good in himself, you will never be discouraged, but truly humbled.
-William Bridge
