What Christians once knew and now have forgotten.

Clement to the Corinthian Church,

Let us bow, then, to that Sovereign and Glorious will.

Thus, by His own Almighty will, He has confirmed His desire that repentance should be open to every on of His beloved.

Besides these men of Saintly life (the Apostles), there are many more of the Elect who have undergone hardships and torments instigated by the jealousy of this World, but provided admirable object lessons for ourselves.

Yet this is He who carries the burden of our sins, and suffers pain on our behalf. - Christ, the Scepter of God's Majesty. On His shoulders He bore the sins of many, and for their sins He was delivered up.

O God, in your great mercy have mercy on me; in the fullness of your compassion blot out my transgressions.

The Heavens (everything in the Universe), as they revolve beneath His government (God's sovereign rule), do so in quiet submission to Him.

The right thing, then, is not to run away from His will; but to reverence the Lord Jesus Christ whose blood was given for us.

His is the breath that is in us, and at His own good pleasure will He take it away (He will cause us to die when our time is up). Truly, His purpose will accomplish itself just as swiftly and suddenly.

Think, my dear friends, how the Lord God offers us proof after proof that their will be a [bodily] resurrection, of which He has made Jesus Christ the first-fruits by raising Him from the dead.


He will act at all times as, and when, He chooses; and not one of His decrees shall fail. The entire universe lies open before Him; and there is nothing that is hidden from His council! Therefore, since there is nothing He does not see and hear, let us approach Him with awe, and have done with this Hateful fondness for mischief-making, so that we may find shelter in His mercy from the judgement to come. For where can any of us flee to, from His mighty hand; or what sort of world will receive one who is a fugitive from Him?

The gracious and compassionate Father who has Chosen us to be His own. Behold, the Lord takes a people for Himself out of the midst of the nations, as a man may take the first-fruits from his threshing floor; and it is out of that people that the Holy of Holies (Christ Jesus) has come. Since then we are the Holy One's special portion, let us not omit any means of Sanctification.