Eden and Heaven (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. 1872. Excerpt: ... embodied in Christ; receiving Christ the soul receives the Law of God in all its Holiness, in all its Perfection; the soul receives both the Law and its fulfilment in Him; and not only so, the soul receiving Christ receives Him in His Death, and ' He is the Propitiation for our sins.' (1 John, ii. 2.) What is there in Earth or Heaven to condemn the soul that has received Christ Jesus the Lord P In Him the soul receives the Law of God in all its perfect Holiness; in Him the soul receives the infinite fulfilment of that Law; in Him the soul receives the infinite Atonement for its Sin. The Sinner, --standing alone, condemned by the Holy Law of God, an alien from all that is of God, a stranger to the Promises, without Hope, and without God in the World, --is now, in Christ Jesus, brought nigh unto God, and receives the adoption of a Son. (Eph. ii. 12, 13.) 'For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the Law of Sin and Death.' (Rom. viii. 2.) 'Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of His.' (Rom. viii. 9.) 'I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.' (Ezek. xxxvi. 27.) 'Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God. Not in Tables of Stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.' (2 Cor. iii. 3.) The soul is born again of the Spirit (John, iii.); led by the Spirit out of its own state of Sin and Death, into Christ; to stand by Faith in Him. 'If any man be in Christ he is a new Creature, old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new.' (2 Cor. v. 17.) The man has a new standing; he stands no longer in himself before God; he stands in C...