Edward S. Atwood, The Transfiguration of Life, and Other Sermons (Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, 1888), “The Contested Will,” pp. 64–65

The Testator has written down that the favor of God and eternal life can only be obtained through him. If we have them we must have them as a gift from him. We do not deserve them; we can not earn them. If our sins are e…