Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Spencer Houghton Cone – Salvation at last! – PART SIX –

Thomas E Kresal November 28, 2019

Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – Spencer Houghton Cone – Salvation at last! – PART SIX

While thus engaged one night the plan of salvation was revealed to me in the figure of Noah’s Ark. I saw an ungodly race swept away with the flood, but Noah and his family were saved, for God shut them up in the Ark.

I felt that, as a sinner, I was condemned and justly exposed to immediate and everlasting destruction. I saw distinctly that in Christ alone I must be saved, if saved at all; and the view I at that moment had of God’s method of saving sinners, I do still most heartily entertain, after thirty years’ experience of His love.

This was Saturday night, and that night I slept more freely than I had done for many weeks. Before daylight on the Lord’s day morning I awoke, and went downstairs quietly, made a fire in the front parlor, and threw open the window-shutters, and as soon as I could see commenced reading the New Testament. I opened to the 13th chapter of John, and came to where Peters said, ‘Thou shalt never wash my feet; Jesus answered him, if I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter saith to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.’ At that moment my heart seemed to melt. I felt as if plunged in a bath of blood divine — I was cleansed from head to foot. Guilt and the apprehension of punishment were both put away; tears of gratitude gushed from my eyes in copious streams; the fire in the grate shone on the paper upon the wall, and the room was full of light. I fell upon the hearth rug, on my face, at the feet of Jesus, and wept and gave thanks; my sins, which were many, were all forgiven me; and a peace of mind succeeded which passeth understanding.”

Thomas E. Kresal from – S. H. Ford, editor, Repository and Review, 1855, pp. 546-558.

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