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The former frequently judgeth amiss; the latter trusteth in God, that it may not be deceived. Of self-denial and the casting away all selfishness "My Son, thou canst not possess perfect liberty unless thou altogether deny thyself.
Then quietly, without bluster or mock-heroics, or making a fuss about our independence, we can put all other commands and commanders in their right place, with the old words, 'With me it is a very small matter to be judged of you, or of man's judgment; He that judgeth me, and He that commandeth me, 'is the Lord, In answer to all the noise about us we can face round like Elijah, and say, 'As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand. He is my 'Imperator, the Autocrat and Commander of my life; and Him, and Him only, must I serve.
"'He that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." He shut his Testament and put it back into his pocket and looked at his judges. "I understand this declaration of Christ to mean," he said, "that whether I believe in Him or do not believe in Him, I am not to be judged till God's Day of Judgment."
So that if we receive anything as indifferent, for this respect, because the church judgeth it to be so, then shall we receive everything for indifferent which the church shall so judge of. Sect. 10. 3d.
There was only one hope which had power to lay it: "If living, he may be spared for repentance. God is merciful; He judgeth not severely; He delighteth in receiving His wanderers back. Did not Nathan say to penitent David, 'Thou shalt not surely die; was not even the guilty Manasseh restored to his throne? Oh, the son of the pious Hadassah, a woman of such faith and prayer, can never be lost!"
But it was as impossible to prove the offence against him, as to punish him for it. Of that wretched man, too, and his subsequent career, I shall have somewhat to say hereafter. Verily, there is a God who judgeth the earth! But now behold me and my now intimate and beloved friend, Crossthwaite, with nothing to do a gentlemanlike occupation; but, unfortunately, in our class, involving starvation.
The same connection of thought underlies Peter's injunction, 'Like as He ... is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, followed immediately as it is by, 'If ye call on Him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth' as a present estimate 'according to every mail's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear' that reverential awe which will lead you to be 'holy even as I am holy.
But he speaketh it of the ministers’ admonishing, who are but a part of the elderships, as himself there granteth. Now, where did I ever say or write, that admonition, by a minister, is a spiritual censure? Again, p. 4, he so judgeth me, that he not only forsaketh, but contradicteth my words, “How can you say you were unwilling?” He saith, p. 16, “Now the Commissioner speaks out, &c. What!
If ye call on Him as Father 'who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear. So then, look at this twofold aspect of God's character. Both these conceptions ought to be present, flamingly and vividly, burning there before him, to every Christian man. 'Ye call Him Father, but the Father is the Judge.
For the more full explanation of which distinction, I liken the prince to the will of man; the ministers of the church to man’s particular senses; a synod of the church to that internal sense which is called sensus communis; the fountain and original of all the external things and actions ecclesiastical, or such as concern the worship of God, to the objects and actions of the particular senses; and the power of making ecclesiastical laws to that power and virtue of the common sense, whereby it perceiveth, discerneth, and judgeth of the objects and actions of all the particular senses.
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