"From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth;
and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands."
Acts 17:26 (NIV)
Everything Not Felt, Unavailing
(Selections From the Journal & Letters of Job Scott )
The death of Christ is nothing at all to thee, savingly, further
than thou hast the living,
saving efficacy of it sealed to thee.
Nothing can possibly do this, without touching and changing thy heart.
If thou dost not feel it, it is nothing. Thou may imagine
and dream a thousand
things about faith, regeneration, and im-putation: but unless the
Holy Spirit change thee, and give thee to feel and know salvation,
in and for thy own soul:
thou would be just as much benefited, by imagining that Joseph of
Arimathea, or any other person, had purchased thy salvation, and that,
by imputation of what he had done, God would,
at some future time, save thee.
For everything that is not felt, is as totally unavailing
to thee, as the most ungrounded imagination; and until thou
sensibly feelest some real benefit, thou hast received no more,
substantially and savingly, than thou mightest
receive by a strong imagination, persuasion, and hope,
from any other quarter.
While the doctrine of salvation by Christ, is only ideal with thee,
it is nothing as yet experimentally in thy possession.
And ideal it is, must, and ever will be,
till thou feelest it. And feel it savingly, thou never canst,
but in and by the Holy Spirit,
the very life of the whole mystery.
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