I WOULD have you look on this text as being a summary of all the things which we have preached to you these years. It has been my endeavor, constantly and continually, to maintain that salvation is of God's good will, and not of man's free will; that man is nothing, and that Jesus Christ is both Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. And I think I may truly say, Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum all things are of God. And oh my brethren, what a large summary it is! it contains words which grasp the compass of everything that your mind can think upon all things; and it proclaims him to whom all things owe their being God. Grasp this total if you are able, All things! What is here omitted? Surely whatsoever the Christian can desire is to be found in those words All things. But lest even that should not be comprehensive enough, our summary contains a still greater word, one which is supreme over all inasmuch as all things spring from his loins, and yet he remaineth still the same, as full as ever. All things are of God. If we be thirsty, here are streams that never can be exhausted. If we be hungry, surely here is bread enough and to spare.
