Explication of the Hundred and Tenth Psalm: Wherein the Several Heads of Christian Religion Therein Contained, Touching the Exaltation of Christ, the Sceptre of His Kingdom, the Character of His Subjects
Explication of the Hundred and Tenth Psalm: Wherein the Several Heads of Christian Religion Therein Contained, Touching the Exaltation of Christ, the Sceptre of His Kingdom, the Character of His Subjects
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. 1837 Excerpt: ...doth effectually work only in those that believe. It worketh in hypocrites, and wicked hearers, (according to the measure of that imperfect faith which they have, ) though it worketh not effectually; that is it doth not consummate nor accomplish any perfect work, but only in those that believe; in the rest it proves ...
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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. 1837 Excerpt: ...doth effectually work only in those that believe. It worketh in hypocrites, and wicked hearers, (according to the measure of that imperfect faith which they have, ) though it worketh not effectually; that is it doth not consummate nor accomplish any perfect work, but only in those that believe; in the rest it proves but an abortion, and withers in the blade. (2.) With love and readiness of mind, without despising or rejecting it. No man can be saved who doth not receive the truth in love, who doth not receive it (as the primitive saint did) with gladness and readiness of mind: as Eli, though from the hand of Samuel, a child, 1 Sam. iii. 18; as David, though from the hand of Abigail, a woman, 1 Sam. xxv. 32; as the Galatians, though from the hand of Paul, an infirm and persecuted apostle, Gal. iv. 14. For herein is our homage to Christ the more apparent, when we suffer a little child to lead us. (3.) With meekness and submission of heart, reverencing and yielding unto it in all things. Wresting, shifting, evading, or perverting the word, is as great an indignity unto Christ, as altering, interlining, or erasing a patent which the king hath drawn with his own royal hand, is an offence against him. Patience and effectual obedience, even in affliction, is an argument that a man esteems the word to be indeed God's own word, and so receives it. He only who putteth off the old K man, the corrupt deceitful lusts of his former conversation, and is renewed in the spirit of his mind, is the man who hath learned and been taught of Christ; who hath received the truth in him. 2. Inasmuch as the gospel is the rod of Christ's own strength, or the instrument of his arm, (" Who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed, Isa. lxiii. 1, ) and the...
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