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Next comes the urgent demand for reformation of life as the sign of real repentance. John's exhortation does not touch the deepest ground for repentance which is laid in the heart-softening love of God manifested in the sacrifice of His Son, but is based wholly on the certainty of judgment.
Kind associates with kind in all nature; and love humanizing, heart-softening love cannot be the companion of whatever is low, mean, worthless, degrading the associate of ruthless dishonour, cunning, treachery, and violent death.
They settled right down to the heart-softening business in such matter-of-fact fashion that their hearts must have lost contour before the voyage was half over. Polly dismissed them from her mind with a sigh of satisfaction, and I then hoped that she would find some time to devote to me, but I was disappointed.
Oh, dear brethren! if familiarity did not dull the glory of it, what a thought that is a God that carries men's loads! People talk much rubbish about the 'stern Old Testament Deity'; is there anything sweeter, greater, more heart-compelling and heart-softening, than such a thought as this?
"At any rate, there is more scope for holiness if a man have it in him to be holy. The heart of a clergyman is more likely to be softened than that of a barrister or an attorney." "I don't exactly know what you mean by heart-softening, Mr. Bertram."
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