Chapter 67. The Seventh Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reco
Let it be known to you that all the oaths you have sworn, all your blasphemies, your drunkenness, your uncleanness, and your
Sabbath-breaking (if all combined), will not provoke Me as much as rejecting the grace I offer you in Jesus Christ. That is the condemnation of the world; all the other iniquities will not sink you as deeply into hell as refusing to believe in Jesus Christ and grasping the grace of God offered to you in the Gospel.
Now, is not God exceedingly willing to be reconciled when He reveals Himself in such a manner to sinful men?
Chapter 67.
The Seventh Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Yet further, God manifests His willingness to be reconciled in this: that when He sees that (notwithstanding all these expressions that we have spoken of before), if sinners will not come in, God Himself will seek them, seeing they will not seek Him. God seeks sinners
Himself.
Firstly, it is a point that you have heard before, that God is beforehand with us; God comes to us because we will not seek Him.
If a man has fallen out with another, he should be the one to seek reconciliation, but he will not, because he has such a proud heart.
"Well," says God, "that I may convince him that I am not such a harsh man as he believes me to be, I will seek him first. I will not