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. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...expectations of the second advent, with clouds, angels, fire, judgment terrors, and Divine glories. Evidently the Church has consistently regarded the prophetic " so in like manner " as a declaration, not of the strict manner of the coming, but of its reality, and its recognisableness. The Lord had really gone ...
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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. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...expectations of the second advent, with clouds, angels, fire, judgment terrors, and Divine glories. Evidently the Church has consistently regarded the prophetic " so in like manner " as a declaration, not of the strict manner of the coming, but of its reality, and its recognisableness. The Lord had really gone. He would so come (as really) as they had seen Him go. Thus the angels prophesied, and thus the Church has understood, besides finding here an implication, additionally, that this real coming would also be a recognisable coming. The mistake has been in thinking and affirming that the recognisableness of the coming would be within the sphere of the senses. In this expectation the Church, as & whole, still cleaves to the old Jewish notion of a Messianic display of glory and power in the visible sky and in the world of external forms. Christians still deserve the angels' expostulation, " Why stand ye looking into heaven?" Look upon the world with a more thoughtful insight into spiritual facts, and see that the Lord has come. Here the reader must be content with a simple reference to fuller discussions than present limits permit, such As " The Parousia," by Dr. Warren, or my short " Essay upon the Gospel of Matthew." The reality of our Lord's coming is recognisable by a clear-eyed spiritual intelligence, intent upon the facts and methods of His growing kingdom of the Spirit in the world. A Christian, as distinct from a Jewish, method of interpreting prophecy, discerns that He has come, that He is coming still, in clearer, stronger, grander manifestations of His spiritual sovereignty over men; and that He is still to come, --not by catastrophe but by development, --in His consummate and universally recognised glory as the Spiritual Head of our...
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