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THE WARNINGS OF GOD By John MacDuff.
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THE WARNINGS OF GOD By John MacDuff.
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THE NIGHT WATCHES.
"Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty." -- Exodus 34:7
"He is faithful who promised." Do we bear sufficiently in mind another truth of equal fidelity -- He is faithful who threatens? Ponderthat solemn word, "He will by no means clear the guilty!"
Remember when that word was spoken it was in connection with a sublime apocalypse of God's majesty. It was as "the glory of the Lord" was passing before Moses.
Was not this intended to show, that there is an awful and inseparable connection between the Divine glory and the impossibility of God's clearing the guilty? It was at a time, moreover, when the benignity of God was intended to be more specially manifested. It was when He was declared to be "the Lord, the Lord God, merciful, gracious, long-suffering, abundant in goodness." Then it was, we listen to the awful note of warning, that "clear the guilty," He will not, and cannot.
