The anxious enquirer after salvation by University of California Libraries

Author:University of California Libraries
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

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justified, which it is to be presumed you are not, you are now in a state of condemnation: " for he that believeth not is condemned already; the wrath of God abideth on him." Every one who has not yet received Christ, is under the curse of the law; he is a dead man in law, a sinner doomed to die; condemned by God, condemned to death eternal. Well may you tremble at your situation, and like the man who after condemnation at the bar of his country's justice, has been removed to await in his cell the execution of the sentence, ask the question, " How shall I escape." At this stage of your experience then it is infinitely desirable you should be clearly instructed in the nature of justification. It is a subject of immense consequence to the sinner, and is therefore frequently mentioned, and treated at great length, in the epistle to the Romans and Galatians. Attend to the meaning of the word. Jiistijication is the opposite of condemnation^ as is evident from the following passages: " He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord." —Prov. xviii. 15. " Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect, it is God that justijietk, who is he that condemneth." —Rom. viii. 33. Fix this simple idea in your mind, that justification is the opposite of condemnation, for things are sometimes easily and impressively learnt by their contraries. The justification of an innocent person is pronouncing him just, on the ground of his own

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