To be near unto God - pagina 284

Savior. And liberated from the curse, he enters into eternal blessedness. But this opening of the book of the conscience will be terrible for those who died without* Christ.

Conversion will then be too late. There can be no more hiding in Christ. Xo more* part can be obtained in the atonement. There is nothing of good to balance the immeasureable guilt. And the sinner must faint under the weight of a read to him in his own conbe the eternal pain in his inmost self, of the worm, that restlessly gnaws, without ever dying; and of the heat in his conscience of the fire, that shall never be extinsentence, that science.

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guished. There is no need of any torture from without, to be added imto this. The fire itself within is the eternal punishment, and this inner consumption of self will be as a cancer, that shall eat into all his being, and corrupt his entire existence. Even as cancer on the outside occasions no pain, but that which eats into the vitals within, so will the punishment begin from the conscience and go through all his existence.

This will be " the knowledge of God" on the part of those, who here on earth, have not willed to know the grace of God. This knowledge of Divine grace is twofold. On one side, here on earth, through faith, it is a knowledge of God that saves. "This is eternal life that they may know Thee, the only true God." But on the other side there is a knowledge of God, which only comes after death, in the judgment, but which for this very reason brings no eternal life, In the earth it was but eternal death. 280

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