Whatever be the power of man, as a free moral agent, and he has enough to sustain the responsibilities of endless retribution, and to make it his reasonable service to do all that God requires; yet it is certain that he will never, without the Spirit and grace of God, so use it, as to make himself a new heart, to love God, hate sin, and delight in holiness; or be even instrumental in leading others to do this immediate and indispensable duty. Though God himself, from the throne of his excellent glory, calls after him, saying, "Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die?" and beseeches him, by the tears and blood of a Saviour, to turn and live; yet, with all his power, be it what it may, without the grace of God, he will never obey him.

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