Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Only way and no other
The exhortations against apostasy and to perseverance, are urged by many
strong reasons. The sin here mentioned is a total and final falling
away, when men, with a full and fixed will and resolution, despise and
reject Christ, the only Savior; despise and resist the Spirit, the only
Sanctifier; and despise and renounce the gospel, the only way of
salvation, and the words of eternal life. Of this destruction God gives
some notorious sinners, while on earth, a fearful foreboding in their
consciences, with despair of being able to endure or to escape it. But
what punishment can be sorer than to die without mercy? We answer, to
die by mercy, by the mercy and grace which they have despised. How
dreadful is the case, when not only the justice of God, but his abused
grace and mercy call for vengeance! All this does not in the least mean
that any souls who sorrow for sin will be shut out from mercy, or that
any will be refused the benefit of Christ's sacrifice, who are willing
to accept these blessings. Him that comes unto Christ, he will in no
wise cast out.
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