...do every thing that can be required of him, in order to his salvation — he will be rejected : for the whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick ; Christ came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance ; for God resisteth the proud, and...

...fallen. Jesus Christ " came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance ; for they that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick." Repentance, then, is only the duty of a sinner; and is intended in order to his cure. But " God command.....

...sees not the adaptation to that condition, or the value, of the salvation provided by the Lord Christ. "The whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick." The words of the text is a conclusion to which the apostle came from several premises. That conclusion...

...' Carry back from hence,' that is from the church, he was wont to say, ' those innocent creatures ! The whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick. Christ came not to call the righteous, but sinners !' To accept his challenge—in other words to maintain,...

...give light to his children, and they shall reign with him for ever and ever. MAY 14. They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick." — Mark ii. 17. AND so long as a sin-stupified soul is sleeping and dreaming away its existence in...

...to them with equal mildness and firmness, from the midst of the company of sinners, " They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick." And that they might have no doubt respecting the meaning of this figurative language, he adds in explanation,...

...had died. I now beheld, that " he came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance ; " that " the whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick ;" and that it is indeed " a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came...

...God, were forgiven, spared, and not destroyed. SENTENCES OUT OP THE NEW TESTAMENT. " They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick :" " I came M»tt. ¡x. not to call the righteous, but sinners unto repentance." " Come unto me, all ye that...

...necessary all his atoning work. " The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." " The whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick." " A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." "...

...&c. and to say, (as he there sets him a form,) ' Carry back from hence these innocent crea• tures ; the whole have no need of a physician, but ' they that are sick. Christ came not to call the ' righteous, but sinners.' St. Austin thought there would never be any...