Day 22: Against Delay of Repentance
"Consider, secondly, the great presumption of sinners, who put off thefr reconciliation with an offended God till another time, shutting their ears to his voice, by which he calls them at present, and refusing him entrance into their hearts, where he stands and knocks. Alas! if he withdraw himself, they are undone for ever how dare they then treat him with so much contempt? Is it not an infinite goodness, and inexpressible condescension in this sovereign Majesty, to call after them, whilst they are running from him; and so earnestly press them, without any interest on his side, to return to him who is their only good and supreme happiness? What then ought they not to apprehend from his justice, if they obstinately and insolently refuse to embrace his mercy? How dare they pretend to dispose of the time to come, or promise themselves greater graces hereafter than those wich they now abuse; Do they not know that God alone is master of time and grace, and that by his just judgment; those who presume to tempt him in this manner, generally speaking, die in their sfns? Ah! it is too true, that he who has promised pardon to the sinner that is sincerely converted, has neither promised time nor efficacious grace to those who defer their conversion"
Source:
"Think well on't, or, Reflections on the great truths of the Christian religion for every day of the month" by Rev. Richard Challoner
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