Gospel-Driven Quote of the Week (9-20-09)
Sep 20, 2009
"The Gospel is older than Luther; but, to every succeeding generation, it is still new,- good news from God,- as fresh now as when it first sprung from the fountain of Inspiration. It was new to ourselves,- surprising, startling, and affecting us strangely, as if it were almost too good to be true,- when it first shone, like a beam of heaven's own light, into our dark and troubled spirits, and shed abroad 'a peace which passeth all understanding.' It will be equally new to our children, and our children's children, when they come to know that they have sins to be forgiven, and souls to be saved; and to the last sinner who is convinced and converted on the earth, it will still be as 'good tidings from a far country,'- as 'cold water to a thirsty soul.' It can never become old or obsolete, for this obvious reason, that while it is 'the everlasting Gospel,' and, as such, like its Author, unchangeable,- 'the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever,'- yet it comes into contact, in every succeeding age, with new minds, who are ignorant of it, but need it, and can find no peace without it; and when they receive it as 'a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ came into the world to save sinners,' they will learn from their own experience that the old truth is still the germ of 'a new creation'- the spring of a new life, a new peace, a new hope, a new spiritual existence, to which they were utter strangers before."
James Buchanan, Justification, pp. 2-3
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