SPURGEON ON FREE-WILL
Free
will doctrine – what does it? It magnifies man into God; it declares
God’s purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men
are willing. It makes God’s will a waiting servant to the will of man,
and the whole covenant of grace dependent upon human action. Denying
election on the ground of injustice it holds God to be a debtor to
sinners, so that if He gives grace to one He is b......ound
to do so to all. It teaches that the blood of Christ was shed equally
for all men and since some are lost, this doctrine ascribes the
difference to man’s own will, thus making the atonement itself a
powerless thing until the will of man gives it efficacy. Those
sentiments dilute the scriptural description of man’s depravity, and by
imputing strength to fallen humanity, rob the Spirit of the glory of His
effectual grace: this theory says in effect that it is of him that
willeth, and of him that runneth, and not of God that showeth mercy
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C.H. Spurgeon "A Jealous God"