Christ the Light of the World (Paperback)

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. 1866 Excerpt: ...and what you are in God's sight. Let us take one of these great revelations by itself now, and ask what it says to us. The Flood. The Deluge. What Prophecy calls "the waters of Noah." Surely there is enough here to instruct and to solemnize, even if there be many things about it which we cannot explain and cannot settle. Between the Fall and the Flood there lie upwards of sixteen centuries. A long time, measured by years. Longer than from Abraham to Malachi: longer than from David to Mahomet: longer than from Constantine to us. But not a long time, when reckoned by generations. The chronology of Scripture tells us that Adam himself lived fifty-six years into the lifetime of Methuselah, and that Methuselah lived till the very year of the Flood. Adam may have known Methuselah, and Methuselah reached to the Deluge. One bright spot marks the interval. There was a saint of God between Adam and Noah. Mysterious, like the rest of the record, when you begin to ask how: but in itself scarcely mysterious, to those who believe in the grace of God, and know that He is the same yesterday and to-day and for ever. "Enoch walked with God: and he was not: for God took him." "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please Him." Not promise only cheered that dark time: grace too, grace in the heart of man and grace in the life of man, proved, to such as would enquire, that God had not forsaken the race which had gone astray. And Noah too walked with God. He "was a just man, and perfect in his generations," that is, amongst those of his time; "and Noah wal...