Hatred—carnal enmity—keeps the unawakened sinner standing afar off: suspicion, distrust, keeps the anxious sinner nearly as far. And it is not till the Lord Jesus, the Peacemaker, comes and lays his hand of conciliation and love on the sinner, and brings him near to a propitious God, that the last trace of the hatred disappears, and the suspicion is supplanted by confidence and joy. From that moment forward the antagonism between God and the sinner is ended. The controversy of many a guilty year is succeeded by a covenant of everlasting peace.
James Hamilton — The Dew of Hermon, in The Harp on the Willows; Remembering Zion; Farewell to Egypt; The Church in the House; The Dew of Hermon; and Destination of the Jews (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1849; from the forty-fifth London edition), pp. 114-115
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