On the Canon of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, and on the Apocrypha; 11 Discourses (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. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... Ibid. vii. 17. highly favoured Disciple of Christ. He had received the spiritual Keys from Christ. Christ taught from his ship. He converted three thousand souls at once. He gathered the first fruits of the Gentiles into the Church. When he wrote his Second Epistle, from which our text is taken, he was old, and he knew that the time was at hand when he must obey Christ's words to him, "Follow thou Me." He was now preparing to follow Christ, to stretch forth his hands, and to be girded to the Cross. What a solemn tone of seriousness, therefore, is there in this his testimony, his farewell testimony, concerning the Epistles of St. Paul Surely the Holy Spirit was then with him. Surely his dear Lord and Master was with the aged Apostle, St. Peter, when he thus wrote: and in the words of the dying Martyr, acknowledging and commending St. Paul's Epistles as Scripture, we have, we may venture to say, the declaration of Christ Himself. It deserves carefully to be remarked, that the great Apostle St. Paul, of whose Epistles we have been now speaking, and who was St. Peter's companion in dying for Christ, when, like him, he takes leave of the Church, aims also, like Peter, to rivet her attention, and fix her whole mind upon Scripture. In his second Epistle to Timothy, --the last which he wrote, --St. Paul says, "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand; I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith; henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness." And that no one might ever doubt how this crown is to be won, he says to his beloved son in the faith, "Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them, and that from a child thou...