To be near unto God - pagina 141

"WITH ALL THY SOUL." When the question is raised whether there is one that seeks after God, the Psalmist denies it ''They are all gone and bitterly complains: aside, there is none that doeth good, no, not one. There is none that understandeth, there is none But was the seeketh after God" (14:3). singer insincere when in the ear of the ages he "As the heart panteth after sang' so touchingly soul after Thee, the water brooks, so panteth God" (42:1). Or did Asaph dissemble a state of soul, which would have been self-deceit, when "Nevertheless, I am continually with he said: Thee?" (Ps. 73:23). By no means. The question meant whether by nature there was one man in whose heart the magnetic drawing is after God, even in such a degree as to overcome every resistance and hindrance. The answer to this is:

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