Ten Discourses on the Present and Future Condition of the Church, in Connection with the Glorious Appearing of Our Lord - Softcover

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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. 1834. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. When a book is sent forth, it is usual to send with it either a reason or an apology for its publication. And the public, if they are to be the readers of it, are entitled to this. They may not, however, perceive, after all, the necessity of any thing being obtruded upon them in addition to the manifold treatises which, in such manifold forms, already have been issued on theological subjects. But local circumstances, besides the far more solemn object of promoting the more special investigation and search into Scripture, supply a motive for laying before the Church observations which might have passed away with the voice which originally gave them utterance. But the peculiar aspect of the times; the tone of religion in the professing Church; the standard of religious knowledge amongst us, or rather the superficial, nay, it is to be feared, the unscriptural views of Divine truth which are upheld by the miscalled religious world; these palpable facts do urgently call upon every disciple of the "truth as it is in Jesus," and especially upon every minister of His Gospel, by every means in his power, to awaken the attention of the world to those things which concern the great glory of our Redeemer and the hope of His chosen people. It may, however, be said, we are taking a bold position, in thus standing up to dictate to a people, and to a ministry, who already believe themselves to be in the enjoyment of a more abundant measure of heavenly light, and to be living in times of the greater extension of evangelical truth. Far be it from us to assume a tone of boasting authority or of vituperation; this is not our motive: but contrariwise, with all meekness, as becometh those who have received mercy, and with all earnestness and sincerity to press the gre...

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