The Training of the Twelve, Or, Passages Out of the Gospels : Exhibiting the Twelve Disciples of Jesus Under Discipline for the Apostleship
The Training of the Twelve, Or, Passages Out of the Gospels : Exhibiting the Twelve Disciples of Jesus Under Discipline for the Apostleship
Alexander Balmain Bruce
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why command His gospel to be preached to every creature, with an emphasis which seems to say He wishes every one saved, when He knows only a definite number will believe the report ? why not Digitized by VjOOQ IC 3o6 The Training of the Twelve. confine His sympathies and His solicitudes to those who shall be effectually benefited by them ? why not restrict His love to the channel of the covenant ? why allow it to overflow the embankments like a river in full flood ? ' Such questions betray igno...rance of the conditions under which even the elect are saved. Christ could not save any unless He were heartily willing to save all, for that willing- ness is a part of the perfect righteousness which it behoved Him to fulfil. The sum of duty is, Love God supremely, and thy neighbor as thyself; and "neighbor" means, for Christ as for us, every one who needs help, and whom He can help. But not to dwell on this, we remaric that such questions show ignorance of the nature of love. Magnifi. cence, misnamed by churls extravagance and waste, is an invariable attribute of all true love.
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