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But how, if they have not faith and repentance? How shall they come then? Answ. Why, he that saith, They shall come, shall he not make it good? If they shall come, they shall come; and he that hath said, they shall come, if faith and repentance be the way to come, as indeed they are, then faith and repentance shall be given to them! for Shall-come must be fulfilled on them.
Object. This is much; but is God connected with this? Is He satisfied now in the behalf of sinners by this Man's thus suffering? If He is, then how doth it appear? Answ. It is evident, yea, wonderful evident, that this hath pleased Him to the full, as appeareth by these following demonstrations. First.
Is not here encouragement for those that think, for wicked hearts and lives, they have not their fellows in the world? Object. But I have a heart as hard as a rock. Answ. Well, but this doth but prove thee a bigger sinner. Object. But my heart continually frets against the Lord. Answ. Well, this doth but prove thee a bigger sinner. Object. But I have been desperate in sinful courses. Answ.
"Whether dost thou know any Christ, preach or profess any Christ who hath not lightened every man that comes into the world with the light of life, or of condemnation; and is he not a deceiver that exhorts people for salvation to any other thing than the light of Christ, yea, or no? And how hath Christ lightened every man if not within him?" Answ.
By these things and other like these, Satan, I say, Satan bringeth the child of God, not only to the borders, but even into the bowels of the fears of damnation, after it hath received a blessed testimony of eternal life, and that by the Holy Spirit of adoption. Quest. But would you not have the people of God stand in fear of his rod, and be afraid of his judgments? Answ.
But it is said the censers of Korah and his company was hallowed. Answ. So is God's worship, which is so his by his ordination, yet even that very worship may be spoiled by man's transgression. Prayer is God's ordinance, but all prayer is not accepted of God. We must then distinguish between the thing commanded, and our using of that thing.
Second. But there are those that are godly educated from their childhood, and so drink in the principles of Christianity they know not how. Answ. I count it one thing to receive the faith of Christ from men only, and another to receive it from God by the means. If thou art taught by an angel, yet if not taught of God, thou wilt never come to Christ; I do not say thou wilt never profess him.
The use of snuffers is to trim the lamps and candles, that their lights may shine the brighter. 2. Snuffers, you know, are biting, pinching things; but use them well, and they will prove not only beneficial to those within the house, but profitable to the lights. Snuffers, you may say, of what were they a type? Answ.
Sixth.-Our evidences are oft out of our hand, and we recover them by our Advocate First Object.-What need all these offices or nice distinctions.-Answ. The wisdom of God is not to be charged with folly.-God's people are baffled with the devil for want of a distinct knowledge of Christ in all his offices Second Object.-My cause being bad, Christ will desert me.-Answ.
O idolatry, O blasphemy! Quest. But what then was the altar? Answ. And it must be THAT, because, as was said, the altar is greater than the gift; but there is nothing but Christ's divine nature greater than his human; to be sure, a sorry bit of wood, a tree, the stock of a tree, is not.
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