Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Offers tend to glorify the creature and not God

"Offer always tend towards creature-glorying, for when you should be evangelizing, how God is rich in mercy, and how full in Grace and Power through the Lord Our Righteousness, Eph. 2:4, you begin proposing some creature-act; and so Christ is now and then brought in, by the bye, only upon the courtesy of your offers. Here his name is made to stoop to your wickedness, and to serve with your sins. Thus offers are fitted to exalt the creature, for when you should be preaching all that exalts God, in contriving, preparing, sending, and revealing Salvation by Christ, also in bestowing and conveying these truths into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, men instead of it, depart from the truth, 1 Tim. 4:1, giving heed to a seducing spirit that carries them away to glory in offer; and when offers come to town, what do they do? Alas, they evidently lessen God and greaten man in the people's eyes that are open." - Joseph Hussey, God's Operation of Grace, Pg. 193 - 194

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