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 all sin? For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

15. It is a divine evidence and conviction, secondly, That what God hath promised he is able to perform. Admitting therefore that ''with men it is impossible'', to bring a clean thing out of an unclean, to purify the heart from all sin, and to fill it with all holiness, yet this creates no difficulty in the case, seeing with God ''all things are possible''. And surely no one ever imagined it was possible to any power less than that of the Almighty! But if God speaks, it shall be done. God saith, Let there be light: and there is light.

16. It is, thirdly, a divine evidence and conviction that he is able and willing to do it now. And why not? Is not a moment to him, the same as a thousand years? He cannot want more time to accomplish whatever is his will. And he cannot want or stay for any more worthiness or fitness in the persons he is pleased to honour. We may therefore boldly say, at any point of time, Now is the day of salvation. To-day, ''if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Behold! All things are now ready! Come unto the marriage!''

17. To this confidence, That God is both able and willing to sanctify us now, there needs to be added one thing more, a divine evidence and conviction, That he doth it. In that hour it is done. God says to the inmost soul, According to