Publisher's 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. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...is gone. Or rather, instead of being cast in Christ, within the veil, it is thrown down into the hold of the ship, to entangle its flukes in the captain's own cargo of small objections. Thus, some men's cardinal doctrine of justification by faith amounts to just this, and nothing more; self-salvation by their own opinions concerning Christ; and not redemption through His blood, as the Way, the Truth, the Life: not His death, appointed and voluntarily borne in infinite love, as the propitiation for our sins, and not ours only, but the sins of all mankind, believing in Him. The letter and the Spirit! Both. Not the letter or the Spirit, Which? If either be from God, both must be; and when it is known how inevitably a right discernment of the thoughts depends on the use of the moods and tenses, the articles and adverbs, the pronouns and interrogations, of the language, in the words of which, and in no other possible way the meaning (God's meaning), can be conveyed and made known, it becomes an impossibility to determine which is most important, the Spirit or the Word, and it is presumption to attempt a separation of them, or the disregard of either. It is as impossible as it would be to undertake a descent of the rain from heaven upon earth without the drops of water, the making small of which, for God's purposes of goodness, is adverted to as one of the proofs of that goodness.--Job xxxvi. 27. A verbal inspiration, nothing less, may fairly be argued from Isa. Iv. 8-11, and the reason for it. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from...
