Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org
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opinions, it must be evident to all who are not deeply prejudiced, that neither the justice nor sovereignty of God can be magnified by them. Even justice itself, on the ground of its holy and eternal nature, gives salvation to the vilest who take refuge in Christ's atonement; for justice has nothing to grant, or Heaven to give, which the blood of the Son of God has not merited. HOLINESS.—"God is light;" the source of wisdom, knowledge, holiness, and happiness; "and in him is no darkness at all;" no ignorance, no imperfection, no sinfulness, no misery, And from him wisdom, knowledge, holiness, and happiness are received by every believing soul. This is the grand message of the gospel, the great principle on which the happiness of man depends. Light implies every essential excellence, especially wisdom, holiness, and happiness. Darkness implies all imperfection, and principally ignorance, sinfulness, and misery. Light is the purest, the most subtile, the most useful, and the most diffusive of all God's creatures; it is, therefore, a very proper emblem of the purity, perfection, and goodness of the divine nature. God is to human souls what light is to the world. Without the latter, it would be dismal and uncomfortable, and terror and death would universally prevail; and without an indwelling God, what is religion? Without his all-penetrating and diffusive light, what is the soul of man? Religion would be an empty science, a dead letter, a system unauthoritated and uninfluencing; and the soul a trackless wilderness, a howling waste, full of evil, of terror and dismay, and ever racked with realizing anticipations of future, successive, permanent, substantial, and endless misery. Nothing can humble a pious mind so much as scriptural apprehensions of the majesty of God. It is easy to contemplate his goodness, loving kindness, and mercy: in all these we have an interest, and from them we expect the greatest good. But to consider his holiness and justice, the infinite righteousness of his nature, under the conviction that we have sinned, and broken the laws prescribed by his sovereign Majesty, and feel ourselves brought as into the presence of his judgment seat: who can bear
the thought. If cherubim and seraphim veil their faces before his throne, and the holiest soul cries out,— "I loathe myself when God I see, And into nothing fall;" what must a sinner feel whose conscience is not yet purged from dead works, and who feels the wrath of God abiding on him? And how, without such a Mediator and Sacrifice as Jesus Christ is, can any human spirit come into the presence of its Judge? Those who can approach him without terror know little of his justice, and nothing of their sins. When we approach him in prayer, or in any ordinance, should we not feel more reverence than we generally do? Though all earth and hell should join together to hinder the accomplishment of the great designs of the Most High, yet it shall all be in vain—even the sense of a single letter shall not be lost. The words of God, which point out his designs, are as unchangeable as his nature itself.
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opinions, it must be evident to all who are not deeply prejudiced, that<br />
neither the justice nor sovereignty of God can be magnified by them.<br />
Even justice itself, on the ground of its holy and eternal nature, gives<br />
salvation to the vilest who take refuge in Christ's atonement; for justice<br />
has nothing to grant, or Heaven to give, which the blood of the Son of<br />
God has not merited.<br />
HOLINESS.—"God is light;" the source of wisdom, knowledge,<br />
holiness, and happiness; "and in him is no darkness at all;" no ignorance,<br />
no imperfection, no sinfulness, no misery, And from him wisdom,<br />
knowledge, holiness, and happiness are received by every believing soul.<br />
This is the grand message of the gospel, the great principle on which the<br />
happiness of man depends. Light implies every essential excellence,<br />
especially wisdom, holiness, and happiness. Darkness implies all<br />
imperfection, and principally ignorance, sinfulness, and misery. Light is<br />
the purest, the most subtile, the most useful, and the most diffusive of all<br />
God's creatures; it is, therefore, a very proper emblem of the purity,<br />
perfection, and goodness of the divine nature. God is to human souls<br />
what light is to the world. Without the latter, it would be dismal and<br />
uncomfortable, and terror and death would universally prevail; and<br />
without an indwelling God, what is religion? Without his all-penetrating<br />
and diffusive light, what is the soul of man? Religion would be an empty<br />
science, a dead letter, a system unauthoritated and uninfluencing; and the<br />
soul a trackless wilderness, a howling waste, full of evil, of terror and<br />
dismay, and ever racked with realizing anticipations of future, successive,<br />
permanent, substantial, and endless misery.<br />
Nothing can humble a pious mind so much as scriptural apprehensions<br />
of the majesty of God. It is easy to contemplate his goodness, loving<br />
kindness, and mercy: in all these we have an interest, and from them we<br />
expect the greatest good. But to consider his holiness and justice, the<br />
infinite righteousness of his nature, under the conviction that we have<br />
sinned, and broken the laws prescribed by his sovereign Majesty, and feel<br />
ourselves brought as into the presence of his judgment seat: who can bear
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