Peter opened his mouth and said, I perceive of a truth that God is no respecter of persons. In the discussion of the subject, I handled Calvinism without gloves. After we had left the meeting, I said to him, that I would not repent for that sermon, for it was the truth, and I believed the Lord helped me. More than a year afterwards, the woman met me at another big meeting. She reminded me of that sermon, and said she never got over it till she gave up Calvinism.
Severity is sometimes needful.
Saul spared Agag, but good old Samuel hewed him to pieces. We held that he satisfied law and justice in the room and stead of all men. They argued that if the debt was paid for all, Universalism must be true. We answered that unbelief, or the rejection of the proffered salvation, was the condemnation. They argued that if Christ died for all sins, of all men, unbelief must be atoned for as truly as other sins.