Fifty-Two Lectures on the Church Catechism; Including the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and Other Important Subjects of Practical Religion - 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: ... being, his soul and body, and every enjoyment and means of happiness, nay, and upon whom, though he be a sinner, he can look as his God, reconciled by a method, the glory of which astonishes and dazzles the eyes of the most exalted creatures, while they consider the wisdom, grace, and love, held out in it: I say, when the enlightened sinner thus beholds the fair beauty of the Lord in the face of Jesus, he finds an object before him infinitely suited to engage his heart, whom he cannot choose but love supremely, and delight in, whom he would have to be honoured through the whole creation, whom he thinks it his glory to obey, and besides whom there is none in heaven or earth that he can desire. In the sight of this object sin appears in its true colours of deformity, and holiness in its proper beauty. The whole man stands prepared to obey; and, fixing itself on the revealed will, is asking with cheerfulness, What wilt thou have me to do? Secondly.--The other reason why this knowledge of God begets obedience in the heart is because it was revealed to this very purpose, that the Spirit having enlightened the dark soul in the knowledge of God reconciled in Jesus Christ, might thereby influence and engage the heart unto a conformity with him. Thus, it is said, ' Christ gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.' And, when God made himself known to Abraham as his God, he speaks thus, 'I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect, '-f And so, at the giving out of the law, we find God speaking in the character of a covenant-God as moving us to obedience thereunto, ' I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods but me.'J And, in short, 'The end of the comman...
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