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.1859 Excerpt: ... A DISCOURSE LEGAL RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND ON THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH, &c. But Israel, which, followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness: Wherefore t Because they sought it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law. Rom. iz. 31, 31. CHAPTER I. The introduction, showing what it is to have a right knowledge of divine truth, and what it is that is eUlier available or prejudicial to the true Christian knowledge and life. HP HE doctrine of the Christian religion propounded to us by our Saviour and His apostles, is set forth with so much simplicity, and yet with so much repugnancy to that degenerate genius and spirit that rules in the hearts and lives of men, that we may truly say of it, it is both the easiest and the hardest thing: it is a revelation wrapt up in a complication of mysteries, like that book of the Apocalypse, which both unfolds and hides those great arcana that it treats of; or, as Plato sometimes chose so to explain the secrets of his metaphysical or theological philosophy, wo-Te o avwyvovs un yvtp--that he that read might not be able to understand, except he were a son of wisdom, and had been trained up in the knowledge of it. The principles of true religion are all in themselves plain and easy, delivered in the most familiar way, so that he that runs may read them; they are all so clear and perspicuous, that they need no key of analytical demonstration to unlock them: the Scripture being written doctis pariter et indoctis, and yet it is " wisdom in a mystery, which the princes of this world understand not1;" a sealed book with which the greatest philosophers may be most unacquainted: it is like that pillar of fire and of a cloud that parted between the Israelites and the Egyptians, giving a ...
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