April 17, 2009

Thomas Halyburton (1674–1712) Beseeching Sinners

We beseech you, in the name of all the glorious Trinity, to grant our demands. We are ambassadors for Christ, and God doth beseech you by us. God the Father and God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, do all join in the supplication. Never were there such three names at a supplication, never such three hands at a petition. O sinners! what hearts have ye, if ye can refuse the desire, the supplication, the entreaties of a whole Trinity? All the love of the Father, all the grace of the Son, and all the blessings that are enjoyed by communion with the Holy Ghost, all plead with you for your compliance. Can ye refuse us, then, O sinners, O rocks, O hearts harder than rocks?
Thomas Halyburton, The Great Concern of Salvation (Philadelphia: Printed by William Marshall, 1801), 281.

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HT: Maurice Roberts

Also in Robert's article "The Free Offer of the Gospel," Banner of Truth 503–504 (August–September 2005): 44.

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