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A Righteousness Required And Imputed

We must have a righteousness in which Jehovah Himself cannot find a flaw, a righteousness which Jehovah cannot mend, a righteousness which neither sin nor Satan can mar; and unless we have on a righteousness of this nature, we can never enter into the blessedness of the world to come.
Where, then, are we to find [...]

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The Immutable God

In reading the word of God, it becomes us ever to remember that the sacred pages are a transcript of the perfections of the infinite God, who is the “high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy;” (Isaiah 57:15).
A Being whose omniscient eye beholds the end from the beginning, who worketh all [...]

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Accepted In Christ

GOD tells us that His people are ACCEPTED IN CHRIST (Ephesians 1:6).
If a person is without Christ, then he has nothing that God will accept!
God tells us that no man CAN COME unto the Father but by Christ; therefore, if a person is without Christ, he has no ground upon which he can approach God. [...]

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Everything In Christ

God tells us that His people are accepted in Christ. If we are without Christ, then we have nothing that God will accept; because His people are accepted in Christ. God has said that no man can come unto the Father but by Christ; therefore if we are without Christ we have no ground upon [...]

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Redemption

I have felt the power of those blessed truths in my soul of which you have written from time to time in the Gospel Standard, particularly the short scrap last month on “Election”.
o! that blessed truth has been and still is dearer to me than life; and the way and manner of its revelation and [...]

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Gadsby’s Catechism

Question 1: Who is the only self-existent Being?
Answer:
God is the only self-existent Being.
Exodus 3:14
Psalm 90:2
Isaiah 45:5
Isaiah 45:22
John 8:58
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Question 2: Ought everyone to believe that there is a God?
Answer:
Everyone ought to believe that there is a God, and it is their great sin and folly who do not.
Psalm 9:17
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Mark 16:16
John 8:24
John 16:8-9
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12.
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Question 3: [...]

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“Not Willing That Any Should Perish”

By William Gadsby

Preached in Manchester, England

February 9th, 1840

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“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward; not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
(2 Peter 3:9)
To add to, or diminish from, the Word of God is [...]

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An Everlasting Task For Arminians

By William Gadsby
A Letter to Rev. Edward Smyth
Note: The cause of the appearance of this work was a controversy which took place between Mr. Smyth, of St. Luke’s Church, and Mr. Roby, then minister of the Independent Chapel, Grosvenor Street, Manchester. Mr. Smyth wrote a work entitled, “Paul against Calvin,” to which Mr. Roby replied, [...]

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