This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... taught his disciples, was for that kingdom in which they should sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. The Baptist fulfilled his commission, and then disappeared from the stage of God's dispensations. His ministry was complete in itself. There was no succession to that ministry; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... taught his disciples, was for that kingdom in which they should sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. The Baptist fulfilled his commission, and then disappeared from the stage of God's dispensations. His ministry was complete in itself. There was no succession to that ministry; and I trust we shall be able satisfactorily to prove, indeed we have already proved, that it is as reasonable for modern ministers to affirm that they are successors of John the Baptist, as it is to speak and act in the character of successors of the Apostles, which is a charge that fairly attaches to them, from the highest Calvinist down to the lowest Arminian. We have now considered, at some length, the ministry of John. That ministry appears to me to require a much more minute investigation than the compass of this work will allow. The records which are left concerning it in the Gospels, are most pointed and peculiar. It appears also that these records are of such character and complexion, because John's ministry was the connecting link between the Law and the Gospel, the Old Testament and the New; or, in other words, between the natural man and the spiritual, that is, the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace. It has been proved that John's ministry was prophesied of in the Old Testament, and that the ministry was fixed, as regards time, "before the coming of the Lord." It has been seen that John occupied the position which had been assigned to him; that he rose a star in the firmament of the church, at the season appointed of the Father. So far, then, all is well; a due order and arrangement is preserved; of all the good things which the Lord had promised Israel should come to pass in the last days, not one thing has failed...
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