Sunday Reflections on Current Topics; With an Introductory Essay on the Meaning of the Word Christianity, and on the Interpretation of the Old ... in Vol. 1. of the Speakers Commentary.. - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872. Excerpt: ... SUNDAY REFLECTIONS ON CURRENT TOPICS. $rrfimitrarg fesag, ON THE MEANING OF THE WORD "CHRISTIANITY," AND ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, AND ON VARIOUS OTHER CURRENT TOPICS. jIHE religious system which we profess can assert no paramount claims, either to our obedience or our faith, apart from the testimony of the Old Testament Scriptures to the Messiahship of Jesus. The Gospel rests securely upon the Old Testament pillars of prophetical fulfilment and historical certainty. It is either the Vert Truth Of God, as spoken "in sundry times and in divers manners, to the fathers by the prophets," and as confirmed to us in "these latter times by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds," or it is, at best, a system of emotional benevolence, of "love to God (whatever He may be) and goodwill to man," without any decisive testimony to its absolute title to acceptance, as the B Creator's one way of Salvation, by Himself revealed to the children of men. Too many of the clergy of the Church of England are, I grieve to say it, at present so pre-occupied with a vain hope of enlisting the suffrages of worldly men in her behalf, they are so eager to catch the popular sympathy by diluting the "FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS" 80 as to make it suit the palate of the lukewarm, the freethinker, if not the materialist, that they are willing to make any concessions to unbelief, and to suffer the dogmatical and historical verities of the Bible to fall into abeyance, or perhaps to relinquish them altogether. This miserable and cowardly endeavour to avoid the "offence of the Cross" is fraught with the most fatal mischief. It impresses earnest-minded laymen with the idea, that either there is no such thing as religious cert...
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