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Messengers, who themselves were once condemned and afterwards obtained mercy without any merit of their own, have been sent abroad all over the earth, and commanded to make an urgent and indiscriminate offer of grace to all the rebellious, who will throw down their arms, and receive a pardon bought with blood. Many millions of our race have sought and found salvation. Indeed from the days of our first parents to this hour, there has been a long line of sinners redeemed and saved by the blood of Jesus and the grace of God. Each one of these is a monument of the rich, free, saving mercy of Jehovah. Each one testifies how freely Jesus will forgive.

William S. Plumer — Chapter LIII, "The Conclusion: An Offer of Life Made to the Perishing," in The Grace of Christ; or, Sinners Saved by Unmerited Kindness (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1853), p. 453

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