Preaching requires
"proportion"
Take any doctrine, and
preach upon it exclusively, and you distort it. The
fairest face in the world, with the most comely
features, would soon become unseemly if one feature were
permitted to expand while the rest were kept in their
usual form. Proportion, I take it,
is beauty, and to preach every truth in its fair
proportion, neither keeping back any nor giving undue
prominence to any, is to preach the whole truth as
Christ would have it preached. On a Gospel thus
entire and harmonious we may expect to have the blessing
of the Most High. So much by way of preface, not by way
of apology. It is not my wont to offer any apology for
speaking the truth.
- C. H. Spurgeon, Election, Its
Defenses and Evidences
