NO modification of principle has ever made any impression on our mind, only the impression that he who proposes it, is ready for back-sliding. There are some principles that are self-evidently right. They can not be modified. We may depart from them, but can not modify them. The law of God is supreme in its authority. It is absolute. Those of us who have taken it can stand by and maintain it, on the one hand, or depart from it on the other. We can not change it or modify it. There are but two things for men to do, who are not under the law of God. One is to come under the law. The other is to reject it. There are also but two things for those who have come under it. One is to observe it. The other is to abandon it.
We are thankful to be assured that the great body of those who have come under the law of the Great King, are well pleased with him and his law. They regard it as holy, just and good, and regard every man who departs from it untrue. The true stand by it, and the untrue depart from it.
But, we have a few claims to put in for the law of King Jesus, and we want the attention of our liberal men to these claims:
We claim for the law of King Jesus that it is most magnanimous and liberal. It excels in its liberality all laws ever published. It offers citizenship to all who will come and be naturalized, with full, free and equal rights. It offers to all, the privilege of becoming children in the heavenly family by adoption, and makes them all heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, on the same terms. It offers the same pardon and on the same terms to all the world. It offers the same divine designations to all, the same gospel, and the same spirit of life; the same Bible, and the same law for all. The same grace of God has appeared to all men. God is no respecter of persons, but he who fears and works righteousness is accepted with him. It has the same liberal terms of union and communion for all who come to God.