{"id":6301,"date":"2022-10-24T10:27:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6301"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:27:22","slug":"%ef%bb%bfwho-shall-have-the-glory-the-worm-or-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6301","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffWho shall have the glory\u2014the worm or Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Who shall have the glory\u2014the worm or Jesus?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Letters of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/32\/romaine_life_walk_triumph_of_fai.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William Romaine<\/a>, 1714-1795)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I received your letter, and think you overlook our ever adorable Jesus, in setting any value upon a poor, dirty worm such as myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If His grace raised this poor, dirty worm from a dunghill and set it upon a throne with His princes,<strong>&nbsp;who shall have the glory\u2014the worm or Jesus?<\/strong>&nbsp;Shall any of His due praise be given to the worm? God forbid!<br>As vile and base as I am\u2014yet He lets me approach Him and converse with Him freely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He condescends to admit me into fellowship with Him; and He opens His treasures and says, \u201cAll these are yours. I bought them for you with the price of My blood, but I give them to you as a free gift!\u201d\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who shall have the glory\u2014the worm or Jesus? (Letters of&nbsp;William Romaine, 1714-1795) I received your letter, and think you overlook our ever adorable Jesus, in setting any value upon a poor, dirty worm such as myself. If His grace raised this poor, dirty worm from a dunghill and set it upon a throne with His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-william-romaine","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}