John Brown

“ Behold I bring ncar my righteousness. Surely shall one say, In Jehovah have I righteousness and strength; in him shall you be justified, and in him shall you glory. Let therefore the wicked forsakc his ways of iniquity and self-righteousness, and let him return to me the Lord, for I will have mercy on him; to me his God, for I will abundantly pardon. As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. You whom times without number, I the Lord your Saviour have besought by love, by tears, by blood, by heavenly joys, and infernal horrors, to accept salvation ”

“ Is hell so sweet, so desirable, that you will have no redemption from it through my blood? Are lusts so honourable, that you will be their evcrlasting slave and endless prey? Why such outrage against me your bleeding Saviour, as to refuse, that in you I should see the travail of my soul and be satisfied? ”

“ O! why thus grieve a divine Saviour!
My dear child, how great is thy misery! While without Christ, thou art a stranger to the covcnant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. God is angry with thee everyday: all his perfections are ready to heap "indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish" upon thee: in vain dost thou expect thy righteousness will profit thee at his bar, and recommend thee to his favour. His law condemns thee to ctcrnal ruin: for, "cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in thc book of the law to do them. ”