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. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...of the many benefits you may derive from your uncle's kind instructions on subjects with which I am not acquainted. I am not tired of our Scriptural correspondence, I assure you; and shall now proceed to introduce to your notice an amiable and interesting character; that of the Centurion, who applied to our ...
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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. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...of the many benefits you may derive from your uncle's kind instructions on subjects with which I am not acquainted. I am not tired of our Scriptural correspondence, I assure you; and shall now proceed to introduce to your notice an amiable and interesting character; that of the Centurion, who applied to our Saviour for the cure of his Servant afflicted with palsy, "grieviously tormented." You will find the narrative in the 8th of Matthew and 7th of Luke. Read both, for there is some slight variation in the detail; but there is such complete agreement as to the circumstances, that the one only appears a more enlarged history of the event than the other. In this Centurion, though a soldier in the Roman army, we find one who certainly was a believer in God: for the Jews in treated for him, saying, that "He had built them a synagogue," thereby testifying his belief in the God of Israel. We also learn that he had Faith in God the Son: Our Saviour himself has borne record of this, " I have not found so great faith, no not in Israel." He was moreover under the influence of God the Spirit, as appears from his humility, "I am not worthy that Thou shouldest come under my roof." His faith he illustrates by an allusion to his own profession, as if he had said, "If I, who am under authority myself, can yet command others under me, how much more canst Thou, who art Supreme, command the departure of this disease and be obeyed." Our Saviour takes occasion from the Centurion's faith, to give a lesson to the Jews on their besetting sin of pride. They valued themselves on being the children of Abraham after the flesh; and he warns them that while many among them shall be "cast into outer darkness," others from the four corners of the earth, from amongst the nations...
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