Elijah the Tishbite (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... me." Let us maintain in all circumstances the blessed consciousness of his love, and the joyful and holy calm of spirit which flows from this conviction. Ijet us look upon ourselves more and more, as our assurance grows with increase of faith and holiness, as bound with all that we are and have to the heart of the great Mediator, and as warranted to commit to him the whole care of our direction, and sanctification, and preservation, unto the day of the Lord. Our great Shepherd, Advocate, and Intercessor, has received the charge of all that the Father has given him, to lose nothing. Behold, then, my brethren, Him who is, and must be, your all in all. Seeing that he is made of God unto us, wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption; to look, however obliquely to any other quarter for that help which he has provided for us, is a base ingratitude, an insult to his offices, an act of treason against his Majesty. Cursed then be the paths that lead to Endor and to Ekron halt and lame must the feet be that are found in these ways There is a God in Israel, who, be astonished ye heavens stands ready to supply the sinner's need with a Divine fulness of help, and righteousness, and salvation To whom do we owe our love, our confidence, our soul's all, but to him O Israel, be dissolved in tears before thy King, and let the words be henceforth graven on thy heart, "Let thy Urim and thy Thummim ever be with thy Holy One." XI.-THE PREACHING BY FIKE. The life of the Church of God upon earth manifests itself in a threefold activity, in Reformation, in Christian Union, and in Missionary Enterprise. Of this threefold development of life in the true Church, the apostle speaks in Eph, ii. 20-23. By Reformation, we understand the efforts...