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To: kalee
"If you look upon him as an unconverted person, in a state of enmity against God and His grace (a supposition which, without good evidence, you should be very unwilling to admit), he is a more proper object of your compassion than of your anger. Alas! 'he knows not what he does.' But you know who has made you to differ.

If God, in His sovereign pleasure, had so appointed, you might have been as he is now, and he, instead of you, might have been set for the defence of the Gospel. You were both equally blind by nature.If you attend to this, you will not reproach or hate him, because the Lord has been pleased to open your eyes, and not his. Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation...Our part is not to strive but in meekness to instruct those who oppose, 'if peradventure God will give them repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth.'" -- John Newton, author of the hymn, "Amazing Grace."


36 posted on 06/06/2009 11:50:22 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Let’s just say I would take a wait and see attitude, my Anglican ancestors didn’t fare too well under Cromwell, but
they didn’t do too well under Mary either.

I am not going to debate the merits/demerits of Calvinism. I do not want to live in any country where I am told how I must worship. I pray it never happens.


37 posted on 06/06/2009 12:38:15 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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