"Your Justification"

My dear Sister, I always loved you as my sister; now I love you much more than ever. I trust in God that you will soon stand related to me by a more close and dearer bond than nature can tie. Only go on, and you will be happy. God has begun His work; let Him finish it. 

All my prayers shall be offered for your speedy experience of His pardoning love. And until you taste of it, let me entreat you to be earnest in the careful use of all the means of grace. Be much in prayer, and in reading and meditating on the Word of God. But then take care that you do not build your salvation on these duties. You are not to imagine that anything you can do is able to justify you in the sight of God. 

Your justification is a free act of God's grace, without works,

 William Romaine

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"My Dear Sister"

My dear Sister, I always loved you as my sister; now I love you much more than ever. I trust in God that you will soon stand related to me by a more close and dearer bond than nature can tie. Only go on, and you will be happy. God has begun His work; let Him finish it. All my prayers shall be offered for your speedy experience of His pardoning love. And until you taste of it, let me entreat you to be earnest in the careful use of all the means of grace. Be much in prayer, and in reading and meditating on the Word of God. But then take care that you do not build your salvation on these duties. You are not to imagine that anything you can do is able to justify you in the sight of God. Your justification is a free act of God's grace, without works. 

 William Romaine

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This is A Blessed Life!!

When the Holy Spirit takes of the things of Christ and preaches them to the heart, oh, what a sweet peace follows! The believer then finds himself saved from all the miseries of sin and entitled to all the blessings of eternal glory. Being thus persuaded of his safety by believing in the sin-atoning death of our Great High Priest, the Holy Spirit then teaches him how to live upon Christ, and how to make use of Christ's fullness. 

On our learning this lesson, depends on our comforting walk heavenward. For Christ does not give us a stock of grace and expect us to improve it by being faithful to grace given. No, no, that is not His way. Our souls must depend upon Him, just as our bodies do upon the elements of this world. We must live by faith in Jesus and be every moment receiving grace upon grace out of His fullness. And this is our happiness to have all in Christ! 

A beggar in myself, but rich with unsearchable eternal riches in Him. Ignorant still in myself but led and taught by His unerring wisdom. A sinner still but saved by His blood and righteousness. Weak and helpless still but kept by His Almighty love. Nothing but sorrow in myself, nothing but joy in Him. 

Oh, this is a blessed life! No tongue can tell what a Heaven it is, thus, to live by faith in the Son of God. Thanks be to Him, that I do know a little of it. Surely, I could not have thought, some years ago, that there was such a Heaven upon earth as I now find. 

[William Romaine] 

Galatians 2:20 ...  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. ❤

Free Act

My dear Sister, 

I always loved you as my sister; now I love you much more than ever. I trust in God that you will soon stand related to me by a more close and dearer bond than nature can tie. Only go on, and you will be happy. God has begun His work; let Him finish it. All my prayers shall be offered for your speedy experience of His pardoning love. And until you taste of it, let me entreat you to be earnest in the careful use of all the means of grace. Be much in prayer, and in reading and meditating on the Word of God. But then take care that you do not build your salvation on these duties. You are not to imagine that anything you can do is able to justify you in the sight of God. Your justification is a free act of God's grace, without works. 

 William Romaine

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Your Recent Sickness

Dear Sir, 

Your recent sickness had a voice! It spoke, and you heard it say, "In the midst of life, we are in death!"

 

How short is life and how uncertain! How certain, infallibly certain, is death! How necessary is preparation for death, and how dangerous is the least delay. How comforting is a well-grounded hope of safety in death, and of joy beyond it! 

This is the antidote against the sting of death, yes, and against the fear of death. It is an infallible cure! Every Christian can look forward to death and judgment, with a hope full of glory and immortality!

 [William Romaine] 

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Fighting Against a Holy God!

Nothing stops the current of His blessings so much as pride. He resists the proud.  He is at war with them. A futile war! A proud sinner fighting against a holy God! Who do you think will conquer? 

 Oh, beware of all high thoughts of yourself and your doings. Take heed of admiring your own greatness or goodness. Self-delight is a very pleasing sin, but more odious to a jealous God than the gross sins of the flesh. I am sure that the more we love Him, the less we shall admire ourselves. 

The Pharisee, full of self-delight, remained in his guilt. The poor publican, who loathed himself, went home justified. There is no perfect humility but in Heaven. Until we get there, we should be learning, and every day seeking for more grace to humble us learning from our Master to be meek and lowly of heart. May God make us better scholars. "If God," says Augustine, "did not spare the angels when they grew proud; will He spare you who are but dust and sin?" 

[William Romaine] 

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Proverbs 16:5 ... Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 8:13 ...  The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.❤

Letter to My Sister

My dear Sister,

 I saw Mr. R. last Sunday, who gave me a very pleasing account of your growth in grace. It was said formerly that the distinguishing love of God chose two from a city, and one from a family. But now what reason do we have to magnify and exalt the love of our God, who has been so exceedingly gracious to our family! I trust He has greater blessings for us all, even in this life, than we have yet received. Only wait upon Him and be found in those ways where He meets His people and He will carry you on safely and sweetly to the end of your journey. It is but a little way and a short time, and we shall be at our eternal home! We ought every moment to be pressing forward. May God keep you from being weary or faint in your mind! 

 You will have afflictions and troubles along the way, and so have all God's children. You have them because you need them. You could not grow in grace without them. How could you take up your cross and deny yourself daily if you did not have daily troubles? It is the exercise of faith to bear them, and to believe that God deals them out by number, weight, and measure. You have not one pain more than you stand in need of! And further, "Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." If we do but attain to this glory, it signifies very little by what way we come to the attainment of it. Think on these things, and through the blessing of God, they may help to make you see and feel that the way of suffering is the royal way to the kingdom. I hope God will finish His work in mother before she goes hence. I trust we shall meet once more in this world; and I doubt not that we shall meet where we shall part no more. I send enclosed a little piece of Mr. Mason's writings. I hope God will bless it at this time, as it comes seasonably, and particularly to my sister M., who will, I expect, be able to read it with profit about the time it reaches you. 

 Why do you want so much to have texts and pieces of sermons? Have you not the Bible? One word of Scripture, is worth a whole volume of man's writings! Read and pray much, and God will do more for you than all His ministers can. I commend you to God and to the riches of His grace, praying Him to do for you exceedingly abundantly above all that you can ask or think. 

 I remain, your loving brother, William Romaine

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Unsearchable Riches

In books I converse with men; in the Bible I converse with God. The more I read, the more I long to read. The Scripture is always new, always instructing, always delightful. The value of the Bible is inestimable. It is not only a perfect map of the spiritual world; but the believer surveying its riches and beauties and pleasures, has a good warrant to say, "All these are mine, for God Himself is mine!" 

God has spared me to read through His Word once more. Oh, what a treasure what unsearchable riches there are in this golden mine! I have never dug deeper, nor found more precious jewels than upon this last perusal. Indeed, upon every reading of the Bible it grows more precious to me, as it has become the conveyance of the unsearchable riches of Christ to me. This I chiefly seek for, that I may get a growing experience of the wisdom of God and of the power of God in His Word and may thereby enjoy the blessings of His love promised in it. It is our duty to read and meditate on the Word, but we should always do it with the fixed dependence of our hearts upon His divine teaching; without which the Word itself will profit us nothing. May the Spirit keep us in the use of means, but entirely dependent upon Him in the use of them. 

The Word of God can be made useful to us, only by the enlightening of the Spirit of God. It is by continual dependence on the teaching of the Spirit, in and by the Word, and by mixing faith with it that we come to find its value and to taste its pleasures. For it then opens a new world to us, a spiritual and eternal world. Thanks be to Him who revealed His Word to me, who opened my eyes to see wondrous things out of His law, who often made me look up and say, "Oh, how sweet are Your words to my taste; yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" 

 God has made His Word very precious to me. My love for it has grown much in taste and value: in taste, it is sweeter than honey; in value, it is more precious than gold, yes, than much fine gold! As I dig deeper, the mine becomes richer, and the treasures of grace are greatly enhanced by their being the pledges of glory. The great end and design of the Scripture, is to conform us to itself. When the Word is understood and believed and lived upon. He then makes it the means of conforming the whole man to it. The believer is cast into the mold of it; he takes the impression every feature. It is so assimilating that every tint is to be seen upon him. He lives the Word, it is to be read in his looks, visible in his walk, manifest in his tempers. See him, study him, he is the living picture of a Bible-Christian!

 [William Romaine]

Matthew 4:4 ... But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

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This is Strange Food to Reason

My dear friend, Our Lord has been showing you some tokens of His singular regard for you. All whom He loves, He chastens. He has been trying you with His rod. The trial on His part was altogether love, and graciously intended for your improvement: "I will feed them," says the Good Shepherd, "with bitter food." This is strange food to reason but rendered truly nourishing to faith. It learns to feel what sin, exceedingly sinful sin, is. 

 The pain says, "Sin deserves ten thousand times more than this!" The pain continues, "Lord Jesus, may Your will be done only let faith and patience have their perfect work, that I may love You for mortifying my corruptions." The disorder abates, "Oh, dear Savior, keep me humble and thankful, that I may so cleave to You with full purpose of heart, as to be dying daily to other objects and be more alive to You. As the pain drove me to You so may the removing of it keep me nearer to You that I may practically learn to set You always before me." These and many other improvements, I hope, followed your recent painful visitation. It was sent to yield you the peaceable fruits of righteousness; yes, a harvest of blessings. May they be rich and ripe to the glory of the Giver! 

 [William Romaine]

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Who Shall Have the Glory?

I received your letter, and think you overlook our ever adorable Jesus, in setting any value upon a poor, dirty worm such as myself.

If His grace raised this poor, dirty worm from a dunghill and set it upon a throne with His princes, who shall have the glory, the worm or Jesus? Shall any of His due praise be given to the worm? God forbid!

As vile and base as I am yet He lets me approach Him and converse with Him freely.

He condescends to admit me into fellowship with Him; and He opens His treasures and says, "All these are yours. I bought them for you with the price of My blood, but I give them to you as a free gift!"

[William Romaine]

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All Their Concerns are Upon His Heart!

His redeemed people are the object of His special care. They are all bought with His blood, quickened by His Spirit, kept by His power, and blessed with His love.

All their concerns are upon His heart. His eyes are upon them. He sees His people with perfect delight, and they shall lack nothing good that He has to give. He is managing all things temporal and spiritual for their good.

He does not, He cannot, make one mistake in His government; no, not the least.

He does all things well.

He is wisdom, He is love, He is omnipotence itself.

Infinite wisdom directs His love and sets it to work. Being Almighty, He makes all things work together for the best to His dear people.

[William Romaine]

Romans 8:28 … And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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On Our Learning This Lesson

When the Holy Spirit takes of the things of Christ and preaches them to the heart, oh, what a sweet peace follows! For the believer then finds himself saved from all the miseries of sin, and entitled to all the blessings of eternal glory.

Being thus persuaded of his safety by believing in the sin-atoning blood of our Great High Priest, the Holy Spirit then teaches him how to live upon Christ, and how to make use of Christ's fullness.

On our learning this lesson depends our comforting walk heavenward. For Christ does not give us a stock of grace and expect us to improve it by being faithful to grace given. No, no, that is not His way. Our souls must depend upon Him, just as our bodies do upon the elements of this world. Every moment we must live by faith upon His fullness, and be every moment receiving out of it grace upon grace.

And this is our happiness, to have all in Christ!

A beggar in myself, but rich with unsearchable eternal riches in Him.

Ignorant still in myself, but led and taught by His unerring wisdom.

A sinner still, but saved by His blood and righteousness.

Weak and helpless still, but kept by His Almighty love.

Nothing but sorrow in myself, nothing but joy in Him.

Oh, this is a blessed life!

No tongue can tell what a Heaven it is, thus to live by faith upon the Son of God. Thanks be to Him, that I do know a little of it. Surely I could not have thought, some years ago, that there was such a Heaven upon earth as I now find. May you find it more and more! Sweet Jesus keep you, my dear friend!

Yours,

William Romaine

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