Things to Think of (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART III. IN THEOLOGY -- SIN AND ITS PUN- ISHMENT. Nothing is really terrible but the wrath of God. The More we understand the sinfulness of sin, the -higher will be our estimate of the work of the cross. The Culminating sin of the Jews was the rejection of the Son of God. Matt. 21:37-41. The great sin of men this day is the same. A Great want of the age is a real persuasion of the punitive judgment of God, said John Milne. Cannot the adventist see that his doctrine of the extinction of the wicked makes the atonement comparatively little ? Incorrigible sinners are left to the freedom of their own wills. The Punishment of sin is the vindication of law and a necessity of God's nature. Circumstances sometimes bring out anunsuspected state of the heart. The case of Saul in the Old Testament is in point. If There is no eternal punishment for the sinner, then the atonement dwindles, and salvation is not so great a thing after all. If God were to "go to law !' with us, we should be in hell. You Complain of a want of feeling, of conviction. But is not insensibility of itself one of your worst sins ? The Death of Christ, so far from saving the impenitent from punishment, makes it more certain that they cannot avoid it. Conviction of the guilt of sin produces fear; a feeling of the pollution of sin produces shame. There is something in the cross that tests and discloses the state of the heart. "The thoughts of many hearts shall be revealed " Sin is attempted deicide. The Hanging of a murderer is just as much an eternal punishment as annihilation would be; for it is once for all, and is never undone. But to apply the term" eternal punishment " to such a human or divine execution is an obvious perversion of language. The term has a meanin...