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and clay in Friesland and in Gelderland? But if we possess deeper insight and larger life, owing to the more favorable circumstances of environment and education, we should not boast ourselves. If we had been planted in such dry ground, we should probably have grown up just as thin and ill-favored. To measure every man's guilt with reference to this collective hardening is not our business, but the Lord is the Judge of all the earth. But it is our business to oppose this hardening, wherever we meet it, with the leaven of the Word, and to pray without ceasing for deliverance from this spiritual plague. Again and again the hardening, which had been upon villages and cities and whole countries, has been lifted by the boldness of a single preacher of righteousness. It may be incurable as in Sodom and Gomorrah, which were to be destroyed, while Nineveh could still repent. But Ordinarily we see the most hardened nations this is exceptional. awake from their spiritual slumber as soon as the preacher of repentance summons them to return to God, Altogether different

is

the personal hardening which, in greater

or smaller measure, comes upon all the Gospel without being quickened

water and not with the Holy Spirit the apostle testifies:

were hardened."

"The

;

who

live under the influence of by it who were baptized with and of this personal hardening

—

election hath obtained

it,

but the rest

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