"The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained; that would be to cast out of window the medicine of cure while yet the man lay sick; to go dead against the very laws of being. Yet men loving their sins, and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistently with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins. The idea- the miserable fancy rather - has terribly corrupted the preaching of the gospel."
~ George Macdonald, from "The Hope of the Gospel".
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