John Duncan spoke in the Free Church General Assembly, on 21 May 1844 and said. “As long as I am told that I must come to God, and that I can come, I am left to suppose that some good thing, or some power of good remains in me; I arrogate to myself that which belongs to Jehovah; the creature is exalted, and God is robbed of His glory. If, on the other hand, I am told that I cannot come to God, but not also told that I must come, I am left to rest contented at a distance from God; I am not responsible for my rebellion, and God Jehovah is not my God. But if we preach that sinners cannot come, and yet must come, then is the honour of God vindicated, and the sinner is shut up. Man must be so shut up that he must come to Christ, and yet know that he cannot. He must be told to come to Christ, or he will look to another, when there is no other to whom he may come. He must be told that he cannot come, or he will look to himself. This is the gospel vice, to shut up men to faith. Some grasp at one limb of the vice and some at the other, leaving the sinner open. But when a man is shut up so that he must and cannot, he is shut up to faith. God is declared to be Jehovah, and the sinner is made willing to be saved by Him, in His own way, as sovereign in His grace.”
Muckle Kate Not a very ordinary name! But then, Muckle Kate, or Big Kate, or Kate-Mhor, or Kate of Lochcarron was not a very ordinary woman! The actual day of her salvation is difficult to trace to its sunrising, but being such a glorious day as it was, we simply wish to relate something of what shone forth in the redeemed life of that "ill-looking woman without any beauty in the sight of God or man." Muckle Kate was born and lived in Lochcarron in the county of Ross-shire. By the time she had lived her life to its eighty-fifth year she had well-earned the reputation of having committed every known sin against the Law of God with the exception murder. Speaking after the manner of men, if it took "Grace Abounding" to save a hardened sinner like John Bunyan, it was going to take "Grace Much More Abounding" to save Muckle Kate. However, Grace is Sovereign and cannot be thwarted when God sends it on the errand of salvation, and even the method used in bri
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