Eternal life must be our possession now; for if we die without it it will never be our possession in the world to come, which is not the state of probation but of fixed and settled reward. While you are brother to the worm and akin to corruption you are, nevertheless, nearly related to Him who sitteth on the eternal throne. A deep experience is bound to resort to Scripture for its expression. Human compositions suffice for surface work, but when God’s waves and billows have gone over us we quote
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