Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review (Volume 16) (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. 1859. Excerpt: ... tants. The sun wastes two-thirds of its beams on trackless waters and deserts. The stars are not put out like your street lamps, when the traveller has no further need of them. Poets have sung of flowers that waste their sweetness. God works on a generous scale. Even of suffering he is not sparing in the laws of his providence. How much of apparently useless suffering is endured under the laws of disease What a waste of life do we see everywhere in the death of the young In this seeming prodigality of the divine procedure, we see evidence that God has plans too deep for us to fathom. And these plans run under the two systems of nature and of grace alike. Our God is one God; and therefore it is, that we believe he will do his pleasure in the conversion of this world, as he has done his pleasure in its creation and its government. It is fixed--in the purposes of him who said, " Let there be light and there was light"--it is fixed, that this world is to be converted to Jesus Christ. ARTICLE VII. NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 1.--Henry Bullinqek's Life And Select Writings.' Next to the principal reformers of the sixteenth century in Germany, few, if any, present a more useful and instructive life than Bullinger of Zurich. If he had not the daring and heroism of Luther, the graceful erudition and softness of Melanchthon, the acutenoss and pungency of Zuingli, or the merciless logic of Calvin, he had fewer defects of temperament than any one of these. He was always sober and self-possessed, judicious and wise, firm and conciliating. Though his character was almost faultless, it 1 Henry Bullinger's Life and Select Writings, from Unpublished nnd Contemporary Authorities, by Carl Pestalozzi: Elberfeld, 1858, pp. 646. (Heinrich Bnllinger, Lcben uud Ausgcwahlte Sch...