dr_parsley
Puritan Board Freshman
John Bunyan:
So long as you have received mercy even once, it sets off a chain reaction of sin and need for more. Nice.
There is not a day, not a duty; not a day that you live, nor a duty that you do, but will need that mercy should come after to take away your iniquity. Nay, you can not receive mercy so clearly, as not to stand in need of another act of mercy to pardon weakness in your no better receiving the last. We receive not our mercies so humbly, so readily, so gladly, and with that thankfulness as we should: and therefore, for the want of these, we have the need of another, and yet another act of God's sin-pardoning mercy, and need shall we have therof, as long as evil time shall last with us.
So long as you have received mercy even once, it sets off a chain reaction of sin and need for more. Nice.