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In His Book The Life Of God In The Soul Of Man, ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005 (message contributor)
In his book The Life of God in the Soul of Man, Henry Scougal, the seventeenth-century Scottish minister, said, “God hath long contended with a stubborn world, and thrown down many a blessing upon them; and when all his other gifts could not prevail, he at last made a gift of himself.”
Christian Theology in Plain Language, p. 86.
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