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. 1882 Excerpt: ...the consciousness of sinfulness, he finds it desirable to allay guilty fears and gloomy forebodings. When, in spite of self, his thoughts run to the future, and the inward voice whispers, ' For all these things God will bring thee into judgment," he reasons: "God made me; he gave me my passions, my ambitions, my ...
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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. 1882 Excerpt: ...the consciousness of sinfulness, he finds it desirable to allay guilty fears and gloomy forebodings. When, in spite of self, his thoughts run to the future, and the inward voice whispers, ' For all these things God will bring thee into judgment," he reasons: "God made me; he gave me my passions, my ambitions, my tempers; he knows my weaknesses: and if this is wrong, why am I made thus? Moreover, he is a Father; he gave me my being; he loves his children; he will not cast me off forever. He punishes me only for my good, to bring me to repentance; and surely I intend to repent, and, therefore, there can be no great danger in this indulgence. Although a prodigal, I am still his child." Now, if the relations to God of creature and child are the same; if the fatherhood of God rests on creation, and not on redemption; if membership in the divine family is through the natural and not through the Spiritual birth; and if the paternal government extends to all the race, and is God's only government over the world of the ungodly, --then this carnal reasoning is not only safe, but sound and truly rational. But it there be truth in God's Word; if there was any occasion for the redeeming work whicn the Messiah undertook, and any neces sity for the Spiritual birth of the soul untc newness of life in Christ, --then all this leaning upon the paternal government by unre generate sinners is an infatuation as cruel as it is deceptive. It is the masterpiece of Satan. The truth respecting the paternal government under which we come by adoption is found in the twelfth chapter of Hebrews. The language is addressed to ' holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling: " "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, d...
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