Christ Crucified Or; A Plain Scriptural Vindication of the Divinity and Redeeming Acts (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. 1854. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... reiterated by more than a score of American 'writers. Such " liberal men" boast not a little of their "rational Christianity"--of religion rescued from the shackles of superstition; but they speak of the Bible more like infidels than believers. It is painful indeed to hear men, who occupy the place of religious teachers, complain of the inspired writers as "lame historians, and inconclusive reasoners, full of Jewish prejudices." And are these the heralds of rational religion ?" My soul, come not thou into their secret." Reader, I beseech you, by the preciousness of the truth, and by your cherished reverence for the oracles of God, beware of this so poorly disguised infidelity Under whatever fair professions the enemy may seek to destroy your confidence in the Bible--the whole Bible, as the inspired word of God--give no place to the devil, no, not for an hour CHAPTER IV. UNITARIAN ACCOUNT OF THE CREATION. To avoid the overwhelming argument in favor of the divinity of Christ, drawn from his works of almighty power, Unitarians, as the best they can do, have ventured the preposterous opinion, that " He created all things only as the agent whom God employed, and by a power that was delegated to him;" and the usual illustration is that of a contractor who builds rail-roads for the government, or for others who may project the improvement: in which case it is customary to say that the government built the road, also that the agent or contractor built it, and perhaps the same may, with equal propriety, be said of the laborers who in person performed the work. This stereotyped explanation is as strangely unreasonable and absurd, as it is unscriptural, and will certainly appear so after a little examination. It contradicts the Scriptures in two important particulars. It ...