If the Gospel brought salvation to those only who were possessed of some amiable qualities, or to those who had committed only a certain number of offences; if it made any limitation or exception whatever in its offers of mercy; if it provided pardon, but not strength, or grace to begin our course, but not grace to persevere; if, in short, it omitted any one thing which any sinner in the universe could need, then some persons might say, 'It is not commensurate with my necessities.' But we defy the imagination of man to conceive any case which the Gospel cannot reach, or any want which it cannot satisfy.
Charles Simeon — Discourse MDCXII, "Men's Hatred of the Light," on John 3:19-21, in Horae Homileticae, vol. 13, Luke XVII to John XII (London: Holdsworth and Ball, 1833), p. 265
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