One of the hardest of all things (a thing possible only for the Holy Spirit to accomplish) is to convince sinful men of the existence of grace in God. They judge of Him by their own selfish hearts. They think that He is altogether such a one as themselves. They can believe in power, omniscience, wisdom, righteousness; but not in grace. The gospel that tells of it seems a gigantic fraud; the very magnificence and freeness of the gift brought nigh, serve only to arouse their suspicion. They could believe in a gospel announcing, The great God will never miss you; or in a gospel announcing that they may crouch in at dusk by some back way, and take their place among the hired servants; but they cannot credit a gospel of free grace, which offers them (blood-bought) the place, and love, and heritage of sons.

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