Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
If a hard diamond could be softened up by the blood of a ram, should not the blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, which He shed out of love, soften up our naturally stony hearts?
Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis: The Practice of Godliness – Volume 1, trans. Elmer Hohle, ed. Rachel Melvin (1719; 2nd edn, Malone TX: Repristination Press, 2013), 1.1.4.5, pp 66-67.