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. 1841 Excerpt: ... by which that blessed, that holy communion is produced and promoted. It was this communion or union of the primitive saints in the spirit and doctrines growing out of the atonement, that rendered the march of primitive Christianity over mountains of oppositipn, and through seas of blood, as resistless as the motion of ...
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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. 1841 Excerpt: ... by which that blessed, that holy communion is produced and promoted. It was this communion or union of the primitive saints in the spirit and doctrines growing out of the atonement, that rendered the march of primitive Christianity over mountains of oppositipn, and through seas of blood, as resistless as the motion of the earth in its orbit. Before it, the empire1 of the world was convulsed to its center, the throne of the Cesars bowed to the Son of God, and idolatry trembled and fell. But O, .its loss! its loss! its dreadful loss!! Satan, in the garb of an angel of light, corrupted the teachers of Christianity, and the great multitude Mistook The Sign For The Substance! Christ was crucified afresh, and angels wept while the night of ages settled down on the world. But "glory to God in the highest!" since the Reformation, the blessed, soul-sauctifying doctrines which spring from their common germ, the atonement, have been revived, and the real communion of saints, both through the appointed signs and without them, begins to illuminate the world. Its influence is seen in those precious revivals which baptize all evangelical denominations into one spirit and one body. Proportionately as they walk in the light, they have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth them from sin. Another and a very important use of this exhibition is the perpetuation of the doctrine of Christ. It directs the attention of Christians to the atonement as the spring of all our hopes, and the foundation of every gospel principle. Christ crucified is always present to his faithful disciples, so that as a pupil imitates his teacher, they may copy the principles of his dying love. Some have supposed that the possession of the substance is sufficient a...
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