The Redeemer's Tears Wept Over Lost Souls: And Two Discourses, on Self-Dedication, and on Yielding Ourselves to God (Classic Reprint)

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It can hardly have escaped the observation of any one who has read the Bible with attention, that in all the communications which the Almighty has been pleased to make to his rebellious subjects, he has employed language the best calculated to make its way to the heart and affections of mankind - that while his remonstrances with the impenitent present a lamentable picture of the most unreasonable hos tility, and unprovoked aggression on their part, they bear testimony, at the same time, to the most com passionate forbearance on his - and that as often as he directly addresses the penitent and believing, whether it be in the way of reproof or of consola tion, it is still in terms that breathe all the affection ate tenderness of a father's love. That such is the language of Scripture nobody can for a moment dis pute, and that the design of such language is to remove those unworthy suspicions of the divine cha reeter, which go to array the feelings and affections of the human heart in hostility to its Maker, and perpetuate the enmity of the carnal mind against God, is equally obvious and incontrovertible. It.

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