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. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...not their lives dear unto them, so that in life or death Christ might be magnified. Multitudes in lowly walks have known the fellowship of Christ's sufferings, amid sacrifices, privations, hardships, perhaps petty but perpetual annoyances, or harsh reproaches from ungodly relatives. Meekly, perhaps in solitude ...
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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. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...not their lives dear unto them, so that in life or death Christ might be magnified. Multitudes in lowly walks have known the fellowship of Christ's sufferings, amid sacrifices, privations, hardships, perhaps petty but perpetual annoyances, or harsh reproaches from ungodly relatives. Meekly, perhaps in solitude, bearing their daily cross after Christ, because his truth and his Person were dearer than all else, they were true martyrs, suffering with Christ, and so becoming more Christ-like. There is a yet deeper sense in which we may suffer with Christ, be more truly baptized with his baptism. His great work was consummated in the garden and on the cross. There he endured his deepest and most peculiar woes, those which most clearly illustrated his character, and most effectually accomplished the purpose of his mission. There he went down into the deepest waters. In Olivet and on Calvary the burden of a world's sins lay upon his soul; he was in the pains of travail for a " a new creation." In the darkness of the garden, a deeper shadow fell upon his spirit as the sins of men would seem to have become almost the subject of personal consciousness, taken up, as v, were, into his own soul, while he, the Substitute of the guilty, untainted by their sins, yet felt with the keenest and most agonizing sensitiveness their foulness and bitterness, and unutterable and infinite misery, and struggled in the birth-throes of a great Deliverance. Can we go with Christ down into those mysterious depths? Js there for us a Gethsemane and a Calvary? Can we be " crucified with Christ?" If we are one with Christ, if we can know the fellowship of his sufferings, may it not be possible to know something of these deanest and most unselfish griefs of our Redeemer? Is it not...
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Good. 1864 Hardcover. NOT a facsimile. Ex-Seminary Library. Text is clean. Binding is strong. Brown textured cloth cover with ornate stamped border. Upper spine end has tiny tears.