September 23, 2008

Despair (from William Gurnall, The Christian In Complete Armour)

"Despair robs God of his infinitude and ascribes it to sin: by it the creature saith his sin is infinite and God is not: too like those unbelieving Israelites Psa cvi 7 ‘They remembered not the multitude of his mercies, but provoked at the sea, even at the red sea; they could not see enough in God to serve their turn at such a strait they saw a multitude of Egyptians to kill, and multitudes of waters to drown them, but could not see multitude enough of mercies to deliver them Thus the despairing soul sees a multitude of great to damn but not an infinitude of mercy in the great God to save him."

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