The vindication,; containing a history of the trial of the Rev. Albert Barnes, by the Second Presbytery, and by the Synod of Philadelphia. To which ... with New Schoolism in the nineteenth centu - 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. 1836 Excerpt: ...if I shall not pay him, on the delivery of the key at the given time, I shall forfeit a hundred dollars. He agrees to my proposition. This is a covenant, and it differs from a simple contract only in its formality; j'ust as a simile, in rhetoric, differs from a metaphor. Suppose Abraham had said to Eleazer his servant, 'Go and take a wife to my son Isaac from my kindred, and return with her within three months, and I will give thee thy freedom and an outfit of five camels and and an hundred sheep, a lent, and furniture. But if thou neglect or refuse, I will deprive thee of thy stewardship, and yet retain thee as a slave.' Eleazer, panting for freedom and comparative independent affluence, assents to the proposition. It is now a covenant, just as complete as the preceding, except that the penalty on Abraham, if he shall refuse to do his part, is not expressed, and though implied, it might be difficult for the weaker to enforce its exaction. Again, I say to my little boy, "My son, if you'll be a good boy, kind to your mother, and diligent in your studies until I return home, I'll bring you a new cap; and if you don't I'll chastise you. Will you agree to it? Yes, that I will." Here is a covenant. Here is simplicity itself, and yet men pretend that young people have difficulty in understanding the old theology of the covenants. Had the builder, the steward of Abraham, or my son any difficulty? Oh no! it is the grandeur of its simplicity which commends the covenant of God to the people of his love. Now, Mr. Barnes denies God's covenant with Adam. 3. Proof 1. When Paul says, "by one man sin entered into the world," brother Barnes insists that " he does not refer to the man here from any idea that there was any particular covenant transact...

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