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The Oberlin Evangelist THE OBERLIN EVANGELIST. Sttsta.inei> iiy an Association. { I Volcmk XV.—No. 10. Whole No. 374 REV. HENRY COWLES, EDITOR. j OBERLIN, 0., MAY 11, 1853. j NEW SERIES, VOL X,—NO. 10. OBERLINEVANGELIST. 1. The reasons whichmay be offered why God should par- plead, filling your mouth with arguments. You may THE don our sin. speak of alt his promises and of that solemn oath in which 3 lUligians Sniraul, 2. The corresponding reasons why he should sanclify he sware by himself, to the end that they all might our hearts. have strong consolation who have fled for refuge" to lay Published every alternate week. Each volume begins the I. First, then, what reasons have we to present before hold of the hope set before us in the gospel." first Wednesdayof January,and closes with the year, contain- God why he should forgivesin 1 You may also plead his honor, that seeing he is under ingtwenty-six numbers, with a title-pageand index. I enter upon this inquiry and bring up these reasons oath and stands committed before the universe, you may TERMS: before your mind in order to show you what reasons you ask him what he will do for his great name if he refuse may present before God and to encourage you to present [to forgive a repentant and believing sinner. You may One Dollar per annum, in advance. thorn. plead all the relations and work of Christ. You may say (CTFor $5 received, from one individual,(rets of expenseto 1. You may plead that you entirely justify God in all tohim, Lord, will it not induce other sinners to come to the Publisher, seven copies will be sent to his address. his course. You must certainly take this position, for theel Will it not encourage thychurch to labor and forgive O'For $10, fifteencopies to one address, and for fournew he cannot you so long us you persist in self-justi- pray more for salvation 1 Will not thy mercy, shown to subscribers, themoneydelivered at thisoffice, any p-rson will fication. You know there is a breach of friendship be- me, prove a blessing to thousands ? be entitled to the paper for one year. tween your soul and God. You have broken his laws. You may urge the influenceof refusing to do so. You OCTSubscribers whowish thedtrectionoftheirpaperschanged You either have good reason for your sin or you hove may suggest that his refusal is liable to be greatly mis- should state where theyhave /ormer/y been sent. not. If you have, God is wrong; if you have not, then apprehended—that it may be a scandal to many,and that [LT*Commui)ications for the Evangelist may be directedto you are wrong. You know how this case stands. You the wicked will be emboldened to say that God has made know of fcke Editorland letterson business to beyond all question—with a force reason that no such exceeding great and precious promises. J. M. FITCH, Publisher, Oberun.O. ought to silence all cavil,—that all the wrong is on your You may urge that there is joy in heaven and on side andall the right on God's side. You might and earth also over every sinner pardoned and Press, College saved—that Jameb M. Fitch's Power No. 5, st., Ousrlin. should know also that you must confess this. You need the saints everywherewill be delighted and will exceed- not expect God to forgive you till you do. He trughl not ingly rejoice in the Lord their God. The psalmist rep- THE SERMON. to publish to the universe that he is wrong ond you are resents the young convert as saying—"The humble shall right, when there is no truth in such a proclamation. hear thereofand be glad." You may urge that since God MEN INVITED TO REASON TOGETHER what con- loves to make saintshappy in this WITH GOD. Hence you see that you must confess your world, he surely will not giving BY PRESIDENT FINNEY. science affirms to be truth in the case. be averse to you his Spirit and putting away Nuw therefore, will you honestly say—notas the de- your sins—it will cause such joy in the hearts of his cision of merely, but as the utterance of dear people. REPORTED BY THE EDITOR. your conscience your heart, that you do accept the punishmentof your in- You may also plead Ihe great abhorrence you have of iquities in "Come now,and let us reason together,Baith the Lord: as just, and do honor and acquit your God all living in sin, as you surely will unless He forgives you. Chough your sins be as scarlet,they shall be aswhiteas snow j the precepts of his law, and in all thecourse of his prov- You may also plead that God hates sin and therefore though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool,"— idence 3 Can you present this reason 1 So far as it must be more than willing to turn your heart away from Isa. i: 18. goes, it is a good reason and will certainly have its sinning and make it wholly pure before his eyes. You weight. him moral If lie was not, He could not may urge on the worth of your soul, a thing which God is a agent You come to God and acknowledge that you he understands far better than you do, and which have moral character. That He lias moral character is 2. may he have no apology whatever to make for sin. You shows that he appreciates inasmuch as sufficiently manifest from the revealed fact that man is your he gave up his renounce the idea ofapology. The case, you deeply only Son to die tint souls might perish. made his image. Every man knows himself to have a very not Ask him if in feel, admits of none. he does not know what it is for a to constitution, to be moral being. is also a soul be saved and moral and a It 3. You must also be to renounce nil sin and be it is for a soul to lost, that we necessarily conceive of God as a moral ready what be and tell him that the great fact able in all honesty to say this before God. You must ut- question between two momentous and cannot rationally think otherwise. these states is now cease all God, able to in God is also a good being—notonly moral butholy, and terly from rebellion against and be pending your case and must be soon decided for eter- so from heart, you cannot reasonably nity Ask if He acts good and sufficient, reasons, say yourvery —else ! him after all he has done and said about wise. always upon expect to be salvation he can refuse to save your and never irrationally and without reasons for his forgiven. perishing soul. Say 4. You must unconditionallysubmit to his discretion. —I) my God, dost thou not know how much my soul is conduct. Nothing less than is tho fitting position for a worth, how certainly is ifwe would appeal to God on any subject, we this moral and it lost forever unless thou in- Hence sinner towards God. You must unqualifiedly surrender to save it 1 must address as a being, and must make our terpose him good yourself to utterly your own. This through his intelligence, expecting him to he in- his will and renounce You may mention before him your lost estate—that appeal will be an important element in yourplea before God fur you arc entirely dependent on his fluenced more or less according as we present good and grace and mercy; that pardon whenever you can honestly make it. are utterly lost to God, to to sufficient reasons. you happiness and heaven, by good 0. You may plead the life and death of Jesus Christns unless ho has mercy on you„and you may conjure him by God is always influenced reasons. Good rea- in more sure have on sufficient to honor the law and justify God showing the love of his dear Son to take all these things into con- sons are to their due and full weight must other than mind of any other being in uni- mercy. It is plain that our reasons reach sideration. his mind on the the mind; must also his verse- Nothing can be more certain than this—that if points besides our own state of they You may also allude to merciful disposition, and to penalty law, ond that arrange- how his has we present tohim good reasons and such as ought to in- refer the of show such suggest often word affirmed that the Lord be ought ments are made as will ensure the honor and sustain tho delighted) in mercy," and that while "judgment" is his fluence him, he will influenced as much as he of law, forgiven. we work, be. thiswe may rest with unlimitedconfidence. dignity the though sin be Hence strange mercy is his delight." Ask him if he will to Upon worth to that gratify his showing Entering now upon the direct consideration of our see how much it is us we are able to plead not own love of mercy, and give you 1. that fully honored the law, so that the salvation you so text, let us first inquire, What is that towhich this text in- before God Christ has much need. Remind him that here God can forgive sin without the danger of seeming to is a great opportunityto magnify his mercy and display vites us ? riches of his Come now, us reason together —but what are conniveat it.
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