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Marty

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Jan 24, 2008, 2:38:24 PM1/24/08
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had bestowed upon them.

Whatever minister has a like occasion to deal with souls, in a flock
under such circumstances, as this was in the last year, I cannot but
think he will soon find himself under a necessity, greatly to insist
upon it with them, that God is under no manner of obligation to show
mercy to any natural man, whose heart is not turned to God: and that a
man can challenge nothing either in absolute justice, or by free
promise, from any thing he does before he has believed on Jesus Christ,
or has true repentance begun in him. It appears to me, that if I had
taught those who came to me under trouble any other doctrine, I should
have taken a most direct course utterly to undo them. I should have
directly crossed what was plainly the drift of the Spirit of God in His
influences upon them; for if they had believed what I said, it would
either have promoted self-flattery and carelessness, and so put an end
to their awakenings; or cherished and established their contention and
strife with God, concerning His dealings with them and others, and
blocked up their way to that humiliation


Marty

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Jan 24, 2008, 12:36:55 PM1/24/08
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of so beautiful a character, and they had only assumed
it to attract notice, even if they had not dared to draw attention to it
themselves, they would not have failed to secure friends who would have made
such remarks to their advantage. But as they acted thus without pretence and
from wholly disinterested motives, they did not point it out to any one; and
I believe that many such facts have not been noticed till now, which is
evidence of the natural disinterestedness with which the thing has been
done.

799. An artisan who speaks of wealth, a lawyer who speaks of war, of
royalty, etc.; but the rich man rightly speaks of wealth, a king speaks
indifferently of a great gift he has just made, and God rightly speaks of
God.

800. Who has taught the evangelists the qualities of a perfectly heroic
soul, that they paint it so perfectly in Jesus Christ? Why do they make Him
weak in His agony? Do they not know how to paint a resolute death? Yes, for
the same Saint Luke paints the death of Saint Stephen as braver than that of
Jesus Christ.

They make Him, therefore, ca


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