#william bacon stevens

[wisdomfish]

God says your soul is His, consequently He has a right to rule over it and receive its allegiance as its governor and king; but you cast aside His rule, and give your allegiance and obedience to God's enemy! Is not this treason, rebellion? Writers on constitutional and civil law tell us, that it is high treason — where a man is adherent to the king's enemies. And do you not adhere to God's arch-enemy? Christ declares, "He who is not with me is against me."

William Bacon Stevens

[wisdomfish]

[wisdomfish]

Each soul, then, which withholds itself from God, does, by that act, break the first and great commandment, and consequently commits sin.

William Bacon Stevens

[wisdomfish]

That our souls belong to God, is theoretically generally conceded — yet, in its full truth, it is but little acknowledged, and exerts but little influence on our hearts and lives.

William Bacon Stevens

[wisdomfish]

God's glory is, then, the great object of man's creation; and the chief end of man is to glorify God. The ownership of our souls being then vested in God, and the object of the creation of those souls being God's glory —

William Bacon Stevens

[wisdomfish]

Every being who ever lived on this earth in whom God breathed the breath of an immortal spirit, belongs to God. The souls of all fallen angels are His. They have alienated themselves from God, cast off his authority, placed themselves in open rebellion to Him and His moral government, and are using the great powers of mind with which they are endowed to thwart the divine will, and spread ruin and woe throughout the earth; yet they can not release themselves from the ownership of God. He has never vacated His right to their souls. They are His, despite their rebellion; His, despite their sin; nor can they ever free themselves from the absolute right of God to do what He will with His own.

William Bacon Stevens

[wisdomfish]

Your right is given to you by others: God's right is self-derived. Your right rests upon deeds and conveyances, the whole value of which resides in certain legal technicalities, or official seals, or judicial records. His right lies in the sole proprietorship of a creating and an upholding God. Your rights are restricted by other rights; your will is fettered by other wills; your tenure is mortised in with other tenures. His rights are based on the counsels of His own will — the one sole controlling will in the universe….

William Bacon Stevens

[wisdomfish]

Are you not opposing yourself both to the person and authority of God; rebelling against His divine sovereignty, and breaking, day by day, the great and foundation laws of His kingdom? Adjudging your conduct then by the plain principles of human law — you must stand charged with rebellion against God, in opposing yourself to His rightful authority, and with high treason against your divine King — in adhering to, and aiding and supporting His enemy, the Prince of Darkness. There is no possible escape from these conclusions. They are the verdict of conscience, of reason, of revelation; and by this verdict, you will be sentenced at the day of judgment.

William Bacon Stevens