To be near unto God - pagina 270

know no forgiveness. Hence again thej^ have no knowledge of the tender love which springs from forgiveness received, nor of the richer knowledge of God which is born from this tenderer affection. It is foreign to them, and therefore the apostle writes regarding this mytery that they are desirous "to look into it." Undoubtedly the revelation of the Being and Attributes of God, as it came to us in the mighty work of the Atonement is far richer, far more tender and more striking than the first revelation in Paradise. The grace, mercy and compassion of our God for also they

the Sinner give us a look into the Father heart which apart from sin would never have been possible. The knowledge of God which we receive in and though Christ far exceeds all other knowlAnd yet in the Scripture the edge of him. mission of the Son to this world is motived by sin alone. Everj- deeply moved utterance of Testament springs love for God in old and from the thrilling experience of the heart, that the sei-^-ant and handmaiden of the Lord have been redeemed from sin and delivered from misery.

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neither reconciliation and sanctification, nor deliverance from misery would have been thinkable, had not sin engulfed the world. Even now it is frequently seen that the cool sympathy for God on the part of the unconverted differs from the warm attachment to God on the part of the redeemed in that the unconverted always discount sin, while the redeemed always start out from the knowledge of misery, that by reason of the knowledge of sin they may arrive at the

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