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I. GOD CANNOT WISH THAT ANY HUMAN MIND SHOULD CONTINUE UNCONVERTED. It would be strange indeed if He did. It is blasphemy to think that God should wish any creature to commit sin. The holy God cannot wish any human mind either to begin to be unholy, or to continue to be unholy.

II. GOD CANNOT WISH THAT ANY HUMAN BEING SHOULD PERISH. God has declared that they shall. It is inevitable in order to the ends of justice, and the maintenance of His moral government. But, then, He does not desire this issue. To say He did would be to say that God is malevolent. He cannot take any pleasure in suffering.

III. GOD HAS NOT DECREED THAT ANY SINGLE MIND SHOULD CONTINUE UNCONVERTED AND SHOULD PERISH. There is no such decree. If there were, it would be substantially the same with the last, only that it would be underhand and clandestine. It would be charging God, not only with sin, but with cowardice and hypocrisy.

IV. GOD NEVER ACTS WITH THE VIEW THAT ANY SHOULD CONTINUE UNCONVERTED AND SHOULD PERISH. God never operates upon the mind with this view. He never interposes difficulties in the way of its conversion, and with a view to its perdition. God does wish that every human mind should be converted and saved.

1. Prove this from God's words.

2. The actions of God will be found in harmony with His word.

3. Prove this from the death Of Christ.

4. This doctrine is deducible from the entire plan of salvation.

(John Young, M. A.)

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KJV: Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

WEB: "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.