GOD DISHONORED

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 5, 1861

BEWARE lest, in cherishing the delusive hope that the law of God will be mitigated, you sin against your own soul by grievously dishonoring him. For upon whom do you rely to mitigate the law, if not upon the Lawgiver himself? You picture God under the image of a feeble father, not to say a weak old man, from whom you can obtain everything by tears; whom circumstances, which he doubtless had not foreseen, can cause to change his purpose; a God who retracts his threats, who compounds with the corruption of men, and who dares bring to his tribunal only a law accommodated to the sins of his creatures!