"Surely, I must confess unto you, if it be an error to think that God may be merciful to save men even when they err, my greatest comfort is my error: were it not for the love I bear unto this error, I would neither wish to speak nor to live." ...more
A remarkably kind discussion. I have read a good bit of the justification by faith ALONE from Luther and Calvin and many more modern authors, but it is nice to get the other side of it. Hooker was compassionate:
"The hour may come when we shall think it a blessed thing to hear that if our sins were a ...more