To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits, and his powers, and throw him naked and helpless into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith, should be the one great aim of the ministry. Sinners certainly ought to repent, for God commands them to repent. But in my opinion, he does not design to have them understand his command as having respect only to their own ability to repent, and not having respect to the proffered aids of the Holy Spirit. Such aids constitute one grand ground on which his command is obligatory, and sweep away every possible excuse.
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Ichabod Spencer (1797-1854) was converted to Christ shortly after the sudden death of his beloved father. He was called into the ministry and served faithfully in Northampton, MA, in the church made famous by Jonathan Edwards, and then in the Second Presbyterian Church of...
