I come not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick,
Can he, who has no share in the danger, be interested in the saving? Pleased from benevolence he may be; but interested he cannot be.
Estne aliquid inter salvum et salutem; inter liberum et libertatem? Salus est pereuntis, vel saltem periditantis: redemptio, quasi pons divinus, inter servum et libertatem,—amissam, ideoque optatam
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Ib. p. 52.
It was reserved for these days of new discovery to announce to mankind that, unless they are sinners, they are excluded from the promised blessings of the Gospel.
Merely read
that unless they are sick they are precluded from the offered remedies of the Gospel
; and is not this the dictate of common sense, as well as of Methodism? But does not Methodism cry aloud that all men are sick—sick to the very heart?