We learn from hence, in what Sense, and on what Ground, it is so often asserted by our Divines, that Unbelief is the great damning Sin under the Gospel.—What does such an Assertion imply in it? Not, that there is any one Sin which does not in itself deserve divine Wrath, or which is not damning in the just Tendency of it: But, as free Grace promises all needful Supplies, and as Christ invites the chief of Sinners to come to him, for whatever they want; so, let the Sins of Men be ever so great and many, they are all freely forgiven to them, who being sensible of their Sins, and feeling their Want of spiritual Blessings, and consenting to be saved in a Gospel Way, are directed and encouraged to look to Christ, and trust in him for the Whole of their Salvation.
Samuel Hebden — Samuel Hebden, The Philippian Jailor’s Conversion, with the Occasions and Consequences of It, Consider’d and Improv’d, in a Discourse on Acts xvi. 23, 24, &c. (London: J. Oswald, 1746), p. 43
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