150 Omnipotent Love. CHAP. 



to say, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, yea and 

 for ever. 1 When we are told that His mercy is for 

 those only who are the favoured of His own arbitrary 

 election, we have a right to say, The Lord is good to all : 

 and His tender mercies are over all His works. The 

 Lord uphold eth all that fall, and raiseth all that be 

 bowed down. 2 When we are told that the death of 

 the body is a barrier which the mercy of God through 

 Christ is unable to overpass, we have a right to say 

 that Christ, while on earth "a power girt round 

 with weakness " was able to raise the dead to life \ 

 and now that He is enthroned " at the right hand of 

 the Majesty on high," 3 as "Lord of both the dead 

 and the living," 4 and endowed with all authority 

 in heaven and earth, 5 it is impossible that His power 

 to save can stop short at the gate of death. It is 

 not the will of our Father in Heaven so Christ has 

 said that one of the little ones should perish. 6 

 Every human being either is, or has been, a little 

 child ; and it is not possible that the will of God 

 can be for ever defeated. When we are reminded 

 of Christ's declaration that many indeed are called 

 but few chosen, 7 we have a right to reply that 

 although this is obviously true of the present world, 

 yet He has suggested a very different hope of the 

 ultimate fate of mankind in the parable of the one 

 sheep that strays away while the ninety and nine 



1 Hebrews xiii. 8. 2 Psalm cxlv. 9, 14. 



3 Hebrews i. 3. 4 Romans xiv. 9. 5 Matt, xxviii. 18. 

 6 Matt, xviii. 14. 7 Matt. xxii. 14. 



