But there is “another book, which is that of the life,” — the roll-book of the regenerate in Christ Jesus, — the register of the washed and sanctified through faith in his redeeming blood. This must needs be opened too; for many there be whose lives are fair and honest, who spend their days inconscientious purity, who live and die in the persuasion that they have fulfilled all the requirements of virtue, but who have never experienced the regenerating power of the new creation, who have never felt the need of atonement by the propitiation of a crucified Savior, and who have disdained to build on the merit and righteousness of the one only Mediator as the sole hope of diseased and guilty humanity. Exalted as they may have been in their own goodness and morality, they have not believed on the Son hath everlasting life.” (John 3:36.)
Joseph August Seiss, The Apocalypse, Lectures on The Book of Revelation. Lecture Forty-Seven. Two last pages of Lecture.
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