Remarks on the "Oxford Theology," in Connection with Its Bearing Upon the Law of Nature, & the Doctrine of Justification by Faith (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.1841 Excerpt: ... upon "every soul," that continues under the relation of its government. Perfect love, then, to God and man, is, we see by the gospel, both the demand and the end of the law. To the gospel, then, belongs, not only the glory of delivering the humble penitent from the bondage of the law of Sinai, but also of showing him, how, and in what way, he may be enabled to walk before his Maker, in love and holiness, by the dispensation of that new "law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus," which has made him " free from the law of sin and death." The law, however, although it was the rule of man in his first estate, was yet, we find, given to fallen creatures under slavery to sin, and we may perceive how it was, and still is, a standard to show, by the holiness of its character, and the personal requirements it demands from all who are under it, how exceedingly great is the sinfulness and depravity of man's own moral condition in regard to it;--how shameful and inexcusable is his opposition to it, as manifested in his actions and life, and how utterly helpless they must ever feel, in looking to it as a means of deliverance from their cheerless and desolate state under its captivity and bondage. But by the law of Christian liberty we are required to do yet more, to make more earnest, and arduous and careful endeavors and watchfulness, than was even required by the letter of the law from Sinai. As citizens of the commonwealth of Israel, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit, we are required to love our enemies, to do good to them that hate and despitefully use us, to work out our salvation with fear and trembling; we are bound and constrained by the love of Christ, to mortify all our earthly affections, to live up, in all things, to the high calling and pri...