Extracts From Letters, in The Gospel Messenger (1886)
THERE IS ONE THING WE ALL KNOW, and that is, that
nothing has happened or can happen by chance, and that
smacks so much of decree, that it shuts our mouth. This single
Scripture is of itself sufficient to make brethren forbear with
each other about it, “For of a truth against the holy child Jesus,
whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with
the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together to
do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined (decreed)
before to be done.” — Acts iv. But it is a dangerous question if
unskillfully handled; dangerous on both sides. On the one side
is the Scylla of presumptuous sins, and on the other the
Charybdis of Arminianism and infidelity. |
