Salvation
It is spiritual madness, it is the devil’s logic to argue thus: My sins are great, therefore I will not go to Christ, I dare not rest nor lean on Christ. The soul should reason thus: The greater my sins are, the more I stand in need of mercy, of pardon, and therefore I will go to Christ, who delights in mercy, who pardons sin for his own name’s sake, who is as able and willing to forgive pounds as pence. (Micah 7:18; Isa. 43:25). [PRASD]
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Ah, sinners! Tell me, tell me, is there anything in Christ to keep you off from believing? No! Is there not everything in Christ that may encourage you to believe in him? Yes! Oh, then believe in him, and then, ‘Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool’ (Isa. 1:18). [PRASD]
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God hath nowhere in the Scripture required any worthiness in the creature before believing in Christ… None ever received Christ, embraced Christ, and obtained mercy and pardon from Christ, but unworthy souls… If the soul will keep off from Christ till it be worthy, it will never close with Christ, it will never embrace Christ. [PRASD]
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What the convinced sinner needs and seeks is, not merely that he may escape hell and reach heaven, but he wishes to do it in a manner that will secure the honour of God. [ROOS]
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God is a free agent to work by law or gospel, by smiles or frowns, by presenting hell or heaven to sinners’ souls. God thunders from mount Sinai upon some souls, and conquers them by thundering. God speaks to others in a still voice, and by that conquers them. [PRASD]
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It is not so much the sense of your unworthiness, as your pride, that keeps you off from a blessed closing with the Lord Jesus. [PRASD]
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You must part with your sins or your soul; spare but one sin and God will not spare you. Your sins must die or you must die for them. [ASGTH]
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Forsake your sins, or you cannot find mercy. You cannot be married to Christ except you be divorced from sin. [ASGTH]
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God’s nature is infinitely contrary to sin, and so He cannot delight in a sinner out of Christ. [ASGTH]
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(In salvation) God will so show His love to the sinner as at the same time to show His hatred to sin. [ASGTH]