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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...which latter is an acknowledgment of faith that it needeth the sanctification of the word and of prayer, before it can be meet for the food of a renewed, and to faith a risen, body; and by this act of faith the creature is sanctified. But this is quite another thing from the act of thanksgiving, after the ...
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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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...which latter is an acknowledgment of faith that it needeth the sanctification of the word and of prayer, before it can be meet for the food of a renewed, and to faith a risen, body; and by this act of faith the creature is sanctified. But this is quite another thing from the act of thanksgiving, after the enjoyment of God's good creature; which is an acknowledgment to God for his gift: the one being of our office as priests, to sanctify; the other being of our office as creatures, to give thanks. So that, when looked into, this custom of blessing and thanksgiving before and after our meals, doth, like all the customs of the earlier Church, rest upon a great principle, which is the principle under consideration--that to faith every creature is good, and unto sight every creature is evil. And thus have we attained another stage of our discourse, that through the redemption of Christ, contemplated by faith, there is good in everything--a goodness, however, essentially derived from God, and, I may say, subsisting in the creature only as it subsisteth in God: for it is in virtue of the personal union between the divine and human nature of Christ that the creature becometh good; being, as it were, clasped unto, and bound in, the Godhead, by that one personality of the two natures of Christ; yet not intermingled therewith, by reason of the distinctness of these two natures: and being by us perceived as good only through the indwelling of God in us in the person of the Holy Spirit, which enableth us. by faith to contemplate the creation no longer out of God, but in God, and yet distinct from God, through that most simple, sublime, and perfect mystery of the two natures of God and man existing in Christ, and, along with the nature of man, all the...
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