08 February 2012

A Blessed Violence

'All that the Father gives me will come to me.' --John 6:37

Bunyan:
When he saith, 'shall come to me,' he means they shall have a discovery of the glory of the grace that is in him; and the beauty and glory of that is of such virtue, that it constraineth and forceth, with a blessed violence, the hearts of those that are given to him.
--John Bunyan, Come, and Welcome, to Jesus Christ, in The Works of John Bunyan (2 vols; Philadelphia: James Locken, 1832), 2:16

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