The Early Prophecies of a Redeemer, from the First Promise to the Prophecy of Moses, 6 Discourses - 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. 1854. Excerpt: ... is contradicted by the Lord's testimony to him, before quoted, at that date. But that at the commencement of the history he stood in need of much instruction--which in the school of adversity he obtained--in the knowledge both of himself and of God: requiring (as is very possible for the most sincere believer) to have a deeper sense of his own nothingness and vileness; and, in contrast, of the greatness and power, the holiness and justice, and withal, of the mercy and grace, of the Almighty. But still the aspect in which Job is most prominently brought before us from the beginning of his history is that of a sufferer for righteousness' sake; and this not alone as regards the calamities more immediately inflicted by Satan, but also the more exquisite and protracted trial of his patience which afterwards awaited him, and which he scarcely appears to have sustained with equal firmness,--in the unjust suspicions and even bitter reproaches of his professed friends who visited him on the pretence of affording him consolation, but in reality helped forward his affliction: who not only charge him with impatience, but call in question his integrity and discourse at length of his afflictions as the judgments of God upon the wicked and hypocrites, notwithstanding his repeated protestation of his innocence, which he calls God and man to witness. As also, it is worthy of remark, his name imports,--in an age when names were significant and often prophetical,--which being interpreted is, "The PerseCuted One" (derived, according to the best lexicographers, from a root "to be an adversary, to persecute as an enemy;" and on which is also formed the usual term to denote the enemies and persecutors of God's people). A point most necessary to the present inquiry to premise; n...

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