The British Pulpit (Volume 3); A Collection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Divines of the Resent Day (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1844. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... would commit himself to the one, except he was assured that he could' also calculate on the other. The Christian would not be the possessor of rest, if he were not the possessor of security. And we need scarcely remind you, that when the time has come for his spirit to enter into a state of immortality, it is secure and it is safe for ever. Security, my brethren, is that which, in invulnerable power, ever surrounds all who believe upon the name of the Son of God. Never would I, for a single moment, attempt to qualify, or to equivocate upon, the doctrine of that perfect security with which they are environed who are the called according to the purpose of God, both in this life, and in the life that is to come. Saith the Redeemer, as you, remember, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one." And, again, saith the Saviour's servant: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that hath loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." The departure of believers is a transition to the chosen mansions, and to the immediat...