In his book Strictures on the Plymouth Antinomians, Joseph Cottle attributed the following story to one he charged as being an antinomian preacher, which preacher spoke as follows to one of his congregants who was in a state of intoxication.
“Ah! Judith! I see you have forgotten your Lord, but he has not forgotten you.”
Cottle was aghast at the reply, condemning it, while I might say that a different Saviour would do me no good. No, grace does not lead us to continue in sin, but grace is greater than all our sin!
“Grace, grace, God’s grace, Grace that is greater than all our sin!” (From the chorus of “Marvelous Grace” by Julia Harriete Johnston, 1849-1919)
Romans 5:20
“…But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound”
Romans 6:1-2
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid…”
Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.”
1 John 3:20
“For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.”
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