Sovereignty and Responsibility

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“Whenever one’s heart is simple, it bows instinctively to the truth of God. If we are unsophisticated (I do not say converted), we feel how righteous, wholesome and good are God’s ways. Anything that distorts or even ignores the revealed character and mind of God is false and will always lead to wrong deductions. But in general the fault does not so much consist in mistaken deductions from Scripture as in human preconceptions and mere theorizing. There are Calvinistic speculations just as much as Arminian. It seems to me beyond question that both schemes are partial and do violence to the truth. The practical lesson is to cherish confidence only in God’s Word. We may safely rest, as we are bound to rest, in His revelation. The best of men, those who help most in ministry, are liable to err, and we must beware lest, merely changing names, we fall into the old snare of tradition or confidence in man. Our own day presents no better security than another. May we trust God and the Word of His grace, which are able to build us up! Our only safety is in simple and implicit subjection to the Word of God, and for this we need the guidance of the Spirit. But we are never sure of having the directing power of the Spirit with us unless the eye is single to Christ.”
W. Kelly