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. 1870 Excerpt: ...Word hath quickened me" Ts cxix. 50, and "with Thee is the fountain of life" Ps. xxxvi. 9. It may be further observed that life is always associated in Holy Scripture with the highest idea of sacredness, whether as it regards the all-holy Fountain of life Himself, or the life of mankind. The most exalted Name of God ...
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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. 1870 Excerpt: ...Word hath quickened me" Ts cxix. 50, and "with Thee is the fountain of life" Ps. xxxvi. 9. It may be further observed that life is always associated in Holy Scripture with the highest idea of sacredness, whether as it regards the all-holy Fountain of life Himself, or the life of mankind. The most exalted Name of God which is revealed to us, is that one which contains the idea of perpetual existence; and this name is not seldom applied to the Word, in a more or less direct manner, in the New Testament. The most sacred of all oaths, too, is when the Ever-living One swears by Himself---"As I live, saith the Lord." Considering the origin of life to be this sacred Fountain then, it is no wonder that the stream which flows thence down to this lower world of nature should be accounted sacred, whether it flow in man or in other beings. Hence, among the earliest laws given to the human race, we find the strongest expressions used on this point. When permission is given to Noah and his posterity to eat of " every moving thing that liveth," a restriction of the licence is added by the words, "but flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat" Gen. ix. 4, a command illustrated by the subsequent law given to the Israelites, in which it is said that blood "is the life of all flesh," &c. blood, and later still by the Apostolic injunction to the Gentile Christians, who were to be set free from all Jewish ceremonies, that they must yet observe this patriarchal precepts of abstinence from blood as.an article of food. And if sacred in the lower animals, still more so in man, "for in the image of God made He man " Gen. ix. 5, 6. Thus it would seem that Holy Scripture always enjoins...
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