"Bible Signs of the Lord’s People," The Old Baptist Test Section XII (1867)
THEN, READER, WHY BLAME the Old Order of Baptists for preaching the final perseverance of those called of God? Of those ‘other sheep’ brought by the Lord? I ask, were all things working together for their good? Or were any of these things
working together for their ruin? Now if all things good and bad, agreeable and disagreeable, grievous and pleasant were all under the care of the Great Shepherd working together for their good, by what means could they apostatize? Just, Christian reader, as all things are strangely working together for your good, in the same mysterious manner, in which they did for the Romans! |
