Let a sinner but repent and believe, and no matter how great his sins may be, he can find pardon. Though they be of astonishing magnitude—though they be as scarlet or as crimson in their hue, the sacrifice offered by our Great High Priest is sufficient to atone for them; “the blood of the Lamb” is of sufficient efficacy to wash their guilt all away. Reader, are you a great sinner? Do you appear to yourself such, at this hour? Are you amazed at the number and magnitude of your sins? Do they appear to you, at any time, too many, or too heinous to be forgiven? Know thou that the greatest sins come within the compass of forgiveness.
James Munson Olmstead — J. M. Olmstead, Thoughts and Counsels for the Impenitent, 2nd ed. (New York: Robert Carter, 1848), ch. XIV, "Forgiveness," p. 272
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