This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... healing power of it--however doubtful of the efficacy of it in their own case--however numerous their wounds--though the poison might have flowed through every vein, into every limb--though swollen, distorted, blackened by the fiery venom--though on the very point of death--yet if they did but look, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... healing power of it--however doubtful of the efficacy of it in their own case--however numerous their wounds--though the poison might have flowed through every vein, into every limb--though swollen, distorted, blackened by the fiery venom--though on the very point of death--yet if they did but look, they lived! Numbers xxi. 5--9. More than fourteen centuries passed away. Then another Prophet, "like unto Moses " but greater than he, arose among the descendants of that same people Israel. From Judsea and Galilee--from every city, town, hamlet, the people crowded to listen to his eloquent words, and to see his wonderful works. Was not this the Christ? One night a Eabbi, a member of the great council of the Sanhedrim, went privately to inquire respecting his doctrines and his claims. Then Jesus said--" As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life." John iii. 14, 15. THE SINNER HEALED. Of the sin of the Israelites we all have been guilty. To the slavery of Egypt we have clung on account of its carnal indulgences. From the freedom of Canaan we have shrunk, dreading the toil and hardships of its attainment. "We have loved the devil's "house of bondage" more than the holy service of a God of Love. We have murmured and rebelled against Jehovah; and worshipped instead, the idols of our own self-will and evil lusts. But sin is a fiery serpent which bites all who handle it. The poison has entered our heart--our whole nature has become corrupted and depraved. The wound is incurable by any skill of our own, and death, eternal death, stares us in the face. But when there was no eye to pity and no hand to save, God, who is full of...
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