“I am sure, sir, I do not deserve to be called his child.”
“Can you tell me who does deserve it?”
“No one, sir.”
“How, then, comes any one to be a child of God, when by nature we are children of wrath?”
“By God’s grace, sir.”
“What does grace mean?”
“Favour; free favour to sinners.”
“Right; and what does God bestow upon the children of wrath, when he makes them children of grace?”
“A death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness; is it not, sir?”
“Yes, this is the fruit of Christ’s redeeming love; and I