In the Spirit's Power - William W. Prescott

the world that He gave His only begotten Son,” and
He depends wholly and only upon the power of
that love in Jesus Christ to win men to submit
themselves to Him.
Most men when they die lose their kingdoms,
and lose control over their subjects. Jesus Christ,
the King of Israel, gained both His kingdom and
His followers by dying. And so it is upon the love
of God in Jesus Christ that God depends, and
though He has been charged with having an
arbitrary government, yet He waits and waits, and
displays His love again and again to draw men to
Him. But He compels none. God gives to every
man freedom of will to choose or refuse Him. If he
says, “I will not have this man to reign over me,”
God does not reign over him. That is God’s method
of government. But Caesar knows no such
government. He simply controls the body. When
the thought goes into outward act, Caesar takes the
body and puts it under control, that the man may
not be able to express that thought further; but that
man, even though shut up in a dungeon, may go
right on sinning against God at every breath.
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