Discourses, Doctrinal and Practical (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Discourses, Doctrinal and Practical'We love him because he first loved us." - 1 John 4: 19.To many it seems that perfect amiableness and goodness in our Creator requires him to look with entire approbation and indulgence upon them, without regard to the principles upon which they are acting, whether holy or unholy. And yet some of this very class of persons, when brought to a more intimate acquaintance with themselves, and to a higher conception of what they ought to be, see that a holy God must hate them, and, if he hates them, they cannot imagine that he loves them at the same time. Here are the two extremes of error, one of which, probably, mankind generally regard as truth.It is to one of these errors your attention is now called. I will, therefore, assume here that God abhors the natural character of man, because it is selfish and ungodly. As Paul said to the converted Ephesians, so he would say, under divine inspiration, to all good men, "Ye were by nature the children of wrath, even as others."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.