Lectures on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Volume N . 3

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...the gift of salvation. But He so died for all, as that all to whom He is preached have the real and honest offer of salvation. He is not yours in possession, till you have laid hold of Him by faith. But He is yours in offer. He is as much yours, as any thing of which you can say I have it for the taking. You, one and all of yon, my brethren, have salvation for the taking; and it is because you do not choose to take it, if it do not indeed belong to you. It is because you have treated it as the worthless thing that you trample under your feet, and will not stoop to seize upon. Or it is because, ere you appropriated it, you would break it into fragments, and either choose or reject of these fragments at your pleasure. All of you are welcome even now to salvation, if you are only willing for a whole salvation. I can promise nothing, nor can I hold out encouragement, to the man who would grasp at the offered immunity from punishment, but would nauseate the medicine that purifies and heals him--who would cling with all his might to the pardon of the gospel, but would decline its expedients for his sanctification--who can listen with a charmed ear to the report that is brought to him of the Sacrifice, but shrinks from that great moral revolution of taste and affection and habit that' is wrought in every believer by the Spirit. Your mincing and mntilating of the testimony of God will do nothing for yon; but your entire faith in His entire testimony will do every thing. And give me the man, who is desirous of afull rescue both from sin in its condemnation and sin in its hateful ascendancy over him--give me the man as ready to flee from the present worldliness, as to flee from the coming wrath--give me the man who is earnestly set, both on repentance from his ...