[Bunyan Characters - Third Series by Alexander Whyte]@TWC D-Link bookBunyan Characters - Third Series CHAPTER XIV--THE DEVIL'S LAST CARD 16/17
On reformation also, let them every Sabbath preach, but only on the reformation that rises out of a reformed motive, and that again out of a reformed heart.
And if a reformed motive, a reformed heart, and a reformed life are found both by preacher and hearer to be impossible; if all that only brings out the hopelessness of their salvation by reason of the guilt and the pollution and power of sin; then all that will only be to them that same ever deeper entering of the law into their hearts which led Paul to an ever deeper faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
With a guilt, and a pollution, and a slavery to sin like ours, salvation from sin would be absolutely impossible.
Absolutely impossible, that is, but for our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
But with His atoning blood and His Holy Spirit all things are possible--even our salvation. Let us choose, then, a minister like Mr.John Menzies.
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