Inhaltsangabe
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. 1870. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD BROUGHT NIGH TO SINFUL MAN. Man in his passage through this world to his home in heaven has fallen among thieves, who have bruised, stripped, and cast him down, and have left him all but dead. Our design is not to excuse the sin of man when we so represent his moral history. The facts of the case warrant us so to speak. For we cannot understand aright that history without remembering that sin did not originate with the human race. Its author was no member of our family. He belonged to another order of beings, and was lying crouching for his prey when the Lord God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to keep and dress it. It was the old serpent the Devil and Satan who seduced man and led him astray. By his wily arts he secured man's ruin. By means of his temptation Adam was led to swerve in his allegiance to God and sinned, and by sin he came under the condemnation of the law, which awards to the transgressor eternal death. There man lies before us, as the wounded man in the parable--helpless, hopeless, and miserable. The crown has fallen from off his brow. The sceptre has turned into ashes in his hand, and his kingdom has departed. He is shut out from heaven, mocked by the tempter, and lashed by his own conscience. And his agony is intensified by the consciousness that he had the power and ought to have obeyed God rather than Satan, and that his former condition was as high and glorious as his present one is low and wretched. There he lies without life, without hope, without love, and without righteousness. Will he remain in this state of darkness and death for ever? Will the temple lie in ruins through all the future, and tell to those who survey its dilapidated walls, its broken columns, and desecrated al...
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