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The heart God chooses for his cabinet: there he hides his treasure;
there is the seat of justice, mercy, and of every grace of God.
Here is naught but open war, acts of hostility, and shameful
rebellion on the sinner's side; and what delight can God take in
that? Wherefore, if God will bend and buckle the spirit of such a
one, he must shoot an arrow at him, a bearded arrow, such as may not
be plucked out of the wound--an arrow that will stick fast, and
cause that the sinner fall down as dead at God's foot. Then will the
sinner deliver up his arms, and surrender up himself as one
conquered into the hand of God, and beg for the Lord's pardon, and
not till then sincerely.
And now God has overcome, and his right hand and his holy arm have
gotten him the victory. Now he rides in triumph, with his captive at
his chariot-wheel; now he glories, now the bells in heaven do ring,
now the angels shout for joy, yea, are bid to do so: "Rejoice with
me, for I have found my sheep which was lost."
REGENERATION.
Thou thinkest that thou art a Christian; thou shouldst be sorry
else. Well, but when did God show thee that thou wert no Christian?
When didst thou see that; and in the light of the Spirit of Christ
see that thou wert under the wrath of God because of original sin?
Rom.
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