I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach
justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the
sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the
electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah;
nor do I think we can preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the
special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which
Christ wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend a gospel which
lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children
of God to be burned in the fires of damnation after having once believed
in Jesus. Such a gospel I abhor.
"If ever it should come to pass,
That sheep of Christ might fall away,
My fickle, feeble soul, alas!
Would fall a thousand times a day."
If one dear saint of God had perished, so might all; if one of the
covenant ones be lost, so may all be; and then there is no gospel
promise true, but the Bible is a lie, and there is nothing in it worth
my acceptance. I will be an infidel at once when I can believe that a
saint of God can ever fall finally. If God hath loved me once, then He
will love me for ever. (Charles Spurgeon)
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