Denial of Substitution

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“There is a continual tendency in the different classes, even of believers in Christendom, to ignore one or the other of these truths. Take, for instance, those zealous that the gospel go out to every creature. It is notorious that most of these deny God’s special favor to the elect. They overlook or pare down any positive difference on God’s part toward His own children. They hold that a man throughout his course may be a child of God today and not tomorrow. This destroys substitution [seen in the live goat led away]. They hold propitiation [seen in the blood of the other goat as presented before God], and there they are right, and quite justified in preaching the gospel unrestrictedly to every creature, as the Lord indeed enjoined. But how their one-sidedness enfeebles the proper portion of the saints!