How am I to wait
But the main question remains. We know this salvation is the gift and the work of God. But how, one may say who is convinced he does not have it, may I attain it?
If you say, Believe, and you shall be saved, he answers, True. But how shall I believe? You reply, Wait upon God. Well. But how am I to wait? In the means of grace, or outside them? Am I to wait for the grace of God which brings salvation by using these means, or by laying them aside?
1771 text
7. But the main question remains. We know this salvation is the gift and the work of God. But how, (may one say, who is convinced he hath it not) may I attain thereto? If you say, “Believe, and thou shalt be saved:” he answers, True; but how shall I believe? You reply, Wait upon God.――Well. But how am I to wait? In the means of grace, or out of them? Am I to wait for the grace of God which bringeth salvation, by using these means, or by laying them aside?
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Sermon 16 in the 1771 Works. Malachi 3:7.
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