Defeated enemies in battle have to confess the superiority of their captors, but this does not give them citizenship in that country. This is why as ambassadors for Christ we beseech people to be reconciled to God by faith in Christ now. If they confess Him as Lord with a heart of faith--now, while the doors of salvation are wide open, they will be saved (Rom. 109,10). Later they are forced to confess His Lordship to vindicate Christ's righteous judgment of them and the worthiness of their eternal doom. Confession does not bring the confessor salvation. It is too late, for the 'accepted time' for salvation has forever passed.
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His lordship pronounced his assent to take to wife his destined prey (in the words 'I will'), with a voice as audible as generally breaks fort...
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That it is not lawful to give to men such flattering titles as, Your Holiness, Your Majesty, Your Eminency, Your Excellency, Your Grace, Your Lordship, Your Honor, &c., nor use those flattering words commonly called compliments.
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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
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Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.
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But his Lordship [tells] ... us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehen...
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