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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. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... would appear alone causing his grace and goodness clearly to descend and spread over even to the utmost limits of his sensible creation. It is this which distinguishes the evangelical mercy, which is gratuitously held out to the acceptance of all, from that general mercy in which so many confide, but by which none can be saved. Were we asked, in brief definition, to state what that is which embraces in the Gospel its essential characteristic, we should say a mercy in awful conjunction with righteousness. It magnifies and does honour to the law in which it cancels the guilt that has been incurred. All the exhibition that God could have given of his character is still given unmutilated. The mercy of the Gospel mixes with the truth of the law. The fourth and last, and here I shall be brief, of the smooth things which I shall instance, is that which many, and some of those who are called the professing people of God, love to be told of from the pulpit, or to cherish, in the secret complacency of their own hearts, a certain Anti-nomian security which they connect with the doctrines of grace and justification by faith. This is a delusion which cannot be too frequently protested against. It stands opposed to all the tenor of the New Testament, and Christianity is everywhere represented as a busy, laborious, ever-doing, and painstaking service; and, therefore, when we see people reposing on their orthodoxy, and making use of it as a soporific to lull themselves, we should ply them with questions founded on the true representation which the New Testament gives. Are they running so as that they may obtain? Are they fighting so as that they may gain a hard won victory 1 Are they striving so as that they may force an entrance at the strait gate? Where, we...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217867693
- ISBN 13 9780217867696
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages68
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