Church History: The provision made for precious souls in the gospel of Christ shall appear not to have been made in vain; for, if some reject it, yet others will thankfully accept the offer of it.
Those that are very poor and low in the world shall be as welcome to Christ as the rich and great; nay, and many times the gospel has greatest success among those that labor under worldly disadvantages, as the poor, and bodily infirmities, as the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Many times the gospel has the greatest success among those that are least likely to have the benefit of it, and whose submission to it was least expected. The publicans and harlots went into the kingdom of God before the scribes and Pharisees; so the last shall be first, and the first last. Let us not be confident concerning those that are most forward, nor despair of those that are least promising.
Christian ministers must act quickly and be persistent in inviting new believers to the gospel feast: "Go out quickly lose no time, because all things are now ready. Call to them to come to-day, while it is called to-day; and compel them to come in, by reaching out to them kindly, and drawing them with the cords of a man and the bands of love."
Though many have been brought in to partake of the benefits of the gospel, yet still there is room for more; for the riches of Christ are unsearchable and inexhaustible; there is in him enough for all, and enough for each; and the gospel excludes none that do not exclude themselves.
Christ's house, though it is large, shall at last be filled; it will be so when the number of the elect is completed, and as many as were given him are brought to him
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