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The
Author sees no purpose, benefit, or comfort in a redemption that does
not redeem, a propitiation that does not propitiate, a reconciliation
that does not reconcile; neither does he have any faith in hypothetical
salvation for hypothetical believers. Rather, he has faith in a redemption
which infallibly secures the salvation of each and every one for whom
it was designed, namely, "the children of God that were scattered
abroad" (John 11:52), which is such a multitude of sinners declared
righteous that no man can number them. God forbid, therefore, "that
I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
(Gal. 6:14)." |