Chapter 62. The Second Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Recon
Unless God's patience indicated His willingness to be reconciled, it could not draw the heart to repentance. But His patience has great power in drawing the heart of man towards repentance because it shows His willingness to be reconciled with sinners.
If God were not willing to be reconciled with you, He would end you or, at the very least, would not exercise such patience as to lead you to repentance. As with the devils, as soon as they had sinned, He clapped chains upon them and reserved them in chains of darkness; there is no such patience of God towards them to act as an argument to draw them to repentance. Therefore, they cannot derive any encouraging conclusion from any act of God's patience to lead them back to Him. But all sinners who are the children of men can.
Has God spared your life at any particular time? Know that in that act, He manifests His willingness to be reconciled with your soul. If a man has an enemy at his advantage and chooses not to take it, does this not signify that he is willing to be at peace with him? And that is the first point.
Chapter 62.
The Second Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Secondly, God has shown Himself to be very willing to be reconciled to sinners by making it the great masterpiece of all His works to provide a way for reconciliation with Him. The Lord has