"But it is now time that we should hear Aspasio. He tells us, 'Faith is a real persuasion that Christ died for me.'
This account of faith given us by Aspasio, seems to me somewhat to resemble the arch of a bridge thrown over a river, having the one end settled on a rock, and the other on sand or mud, so needing a great many subsidiary props to support its own weight; and which after all is liable to be undermined by every land-flood or swell of the river; and therefore, the t...raveller had need to be cautious how he ventures upon it.
That Christ died, that he gave his life a ransom for many, is indeed a truth fully ascertained in the Scriptures, and established there, firm as a rock, for the relief of the shipwrecked and the desperate; yeah, many finding rest here, have been determined to follow Christ, at all hazards, having no other reason to give for their attachment, but, Thou has the wrods of eternal life.
That Christ died for me, is a point not so easily settled: and, therefore, I am not surprised to find Aspasio laboring hard, with much eloquence and skill, to establish it by a variety of props; and after all very ready, not only to pardon, but to sympathize with his friend upon his remissness and inactivity to come up to it." - Robert Sandaman, Letters on Theron and Aspasio
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