Volume 64: Emily Macarthur [Mrs. James Macarthur] correspondence and other papers, 1838-1879: No. 379
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from their stupor, & the voice must be that of the trumpet. To draw this picture so that man may see himself - in his natural state man is half beast & half devil, a cage of every thing unclean & only evil, look at man in all his actions, at man as the scripture sets him forth. Look at God as he has revealed himself, a God of Holiness. purity & truth, that reverse of what man is
Man is dead in trespass & sins until the spirit of the Living God awakens him out of his death, & shews him the depth of sin, misery, & eternal ruin to which he has fallen by the disobedience of his first parents, & his own actual transgressions. But God mercifully left not man in this miserable condition, he has provided a remedy in the Glorious Gospel, a refuge for sinners in the death & passion of our Lord Jesus Christ &c &c. To those who by faith are enabled to lay hold on this blessed remedy, & cast themselves on this atoning sacrifice, they can