Veracity and Faithfulness
By veracity and faithfulness I mean the transitive truth of God, in its two-fold relation to his creatures in general and to his redeemed people in particular. In virtue of his veracity, all his revelations to creatures consist with his essential being and with each other. I believe the dry season is over for churches and saints who have lasted through the shaking. We will see people being sent to places that have shaken off the tried religious habits, and have once again put Christ back as head of His church. In God's veracity, we have the guarantee that our faculties in their normal exercise do not deceive us; that the laws of thought are also laws of things; that the external world, and second causes in it, have objective existence; that the same causes will always produce the same effects; that the threats of the moral nature will be executed upon the unrepentant transgressor; that man's moral nature is made in the image of God; and that we may draw just conclu...