The power to receive is scarcely a power, and yet it is the only power needed for salvation. Come along and take what Christ doth freely give you. Suppose an accident should take away our lives; I smile as I think that the worst thing that could happen would be the best thing that could happen. If we should die, we should but the sooner be “forever with the Lord.” The publican’s prayer so pleased the Lord Jesus Christ, who heard it, that He condescended to become a portrait painter, and took a sketch
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