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. 1852. Excerpt: ... SECTION III. MEANS AND RESOURCES OF CHRISTIAN USEFULNESS. It might be expected that we should now speak of the recognized means of christian usefulness, and it was our first intention to consider them at some length; but the foregoing sections having exceeded the limits originally assigned to them, we must compress our observation on this question, in some instances, at least, into a few brief hints. It is clearly the Divine purpose to accomplish saving good in the world, by the agency ofbelievingmen, through the instrumentality of the Gospel. This is sufficiently apparent in the very terms in which our Lord delivered to his apostles their great commission, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; and he that believeth not shall be damned;" (Markxvi. 15, 16.) and it is explicitly taught in such passages as these:-1-" Being bom again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever." (1 Pet. i. 23.) Sanctify them throuijh thy truth: thy word is truth." (John xvii. 17.) "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Rom. x. 17.) says with great emphasis to the Corinthians, "Ye are manifestly declared to be the epistles of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart"; (2 Cor. hi. 3.) meaning, no doubt, that they were themselves, in the complete moral change they were known to have undergone, commendatory epistles of the Gospel to the ignorant and unconverted among whom they lived. Now there are obviously two ways in which Christians may promote amongst their fellowmen a saving acquaintance with the gospel; nam...
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