Rejecting Salvation

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Matthew 8:34

And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they sought him that he would depart out of their coasts.

To me it is specially appalling that a man should perish through wilfully rejecting the Divine salvation. A drowning man throwing away the life-belt, a poisoned man pouring the antidote upon the floor, a wounded man tearing open his wounds, any one of these is a sad sight; but what shall we say of a soul putting from it the Redeemer and choosing its own destruction?

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