Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... IX. We were seeing last evening in the preceding verses the question between God and the world brought to an issue. The Son of God having been sent in the world, and in the world and by the world crucified, thus putting the world to the test, God could do nothing in the world after it had crucified His Son. "0 righteous Father, the world hath not known thee!" Having hung God's Son on the cross, that moment cut the world off; therefore now the world is a thing to be overcome by the saint. "This is He that came by water and blood." What the Apostle now presents is the character and value of the cross. "He came by water and blood." The water and the blood are as a witness on God's part, the testimony that God gives. (The words mtness, record, and testimony are all the same word in the original.) You may remark here, "This is the witness, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son." This is the thing witnessed. "This is the record" (or testimony), "that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son;" not in the first Adam, but in "His Son;" not in man, nor by his works, nor any means whatever, it's God's gift. "He hath given." And not properly and intrinsically in us, it's in His Son; and even when we are quickened, the life is not looked at as in us. "Because I live, ye shall live also." It is therefore immutable. If Christ's life can be in any way annulled or set aside, then can the life in us be so likewise, and not otherwise. If Christ can die, so can we; but if death hath no more dominion over Him, no more hath it over us; and this it is that gives the amazing value and blessed character of this life. It's given to the Son to have life in Himself. (John v. 26.) For example, my finger has life, my...
