There is something unspeakably awful in presuming to dictate terms of salvation. Surely it is the prerogative of God alone to save and to condemn. He is fully entitled to require men, at their peril, to believe his word; and what he has revealed, we ought faithfully to declare, whether it be acceptable, or offensive to our fellow sinners. But the solemn sanction, with which the gospel is accompanied, ought to inspire us with the most sacred dread of making any alteration in the divine proclamation. Nothing can be more tremendous than the thought of attempting to enforce opinions of our own, by the terrors of the Lord; yet this is the sin of all those, who would add to the laws of the kingdom of Christ.

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