Remarks on Certain Opinions Recently Propagated, Respecting Universal Redemption, and Other Topics Connected with That Subject

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.1830 Excerpt: ... ing under a distress from which it is unable to relieve him. But this is a supposition dishonourable to the all-sufficiency of the gospel. To set a believer a searching for evidence of his interest in Christ, is a most mischievous practice. It withdraws the mind from the simple truth. It introduces legality; unsettles the Christian's confidence; destroys his comfort; and places his peace upon an unstable and shifting foundation of sand, instead of leaving it to rest upon the direct testimony of God, which would fix his feet upon the Rock of ages. It is to the examination of these assertions that the following pages are principally devoted. CHAPTER II. ON THE FREENESS OF THE GOSPEL AND ON THE LOVE OF GOD. In the camp of Israel the opticians were wrong, who itinerated with their instruments, to aid the vision of those who were bitten; and the physicians were as far from being right, who discouraged the wounded from looking to the brasen serpent, till they were thoroughly bled or blistered, and properly dressed and bandaged. Those men could not be too much commended, who endeav oured to prevent every addition to the Divine injunction; who laboured to strip it of all ambiguity and misapprehension; and who exhorted their suffering brethren to comply with the directions exactly as God had given them, and to look at once, and just as they were, to the serpent lifted up on the pole. And after the scriptures are replenished with the most bright and overbearing attestations to the precious and soul-saving truth, that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth, and appointed for salvation to the ends of the earth, every man is entitled to our warmest gratitude, who exerts himself to secure the purity of revealed truth; and clear the gos...