Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1860. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, SUBJECTIVELY CONSIDERED. ARGUMENT OF THE SECOND BOOK. This Second Book is devoted to the exposition of the work of God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, in the personal and direct application of the Knowledge of God unto the Salvation of individual men. It is the very action and crisis of the subjective consideration of the saving Knowledge of God. Every thing that has gone before, not only in the First Book of this Treatise, but in the whole of the preceding Treatise, is unto the work developed in this Book. Every thing which can follow is essentially determined by what is settled in this Book. Errors, even grave errors, heretofore or hereafter, might not be fatal: but any fatal error here is wholly destructive. For if our souls can but be saved, the rest is only secondary: but if we miss the way in the actual matter of being saved, the rest is utterly worthless. The reader can desire of me no better token, than that I take my own soul in one hand, and the light of life in the other--and bid him if he will bear me company, watch earnestly for the life of his own soul. In the First Chapter of this Book, which is the Sixth of this Treatise--the endeavour is to point out the exact manner in which we become personally interested in the salvation covenanted in Jesus Christ, and individually reap the benefit thereof, in being actually saved. Passing over much that is proved in this Chapter, the main thing established is, that a real and spiritual union is indissolubly established between the human soul and the Person of the Son of God: that, on our part, this is by means of Faith in the Divine Redeemer crucified for us--which Faith is the product of the work of God's Spirit in our soul--which work of God's Spirit is the result of our per...
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