The Contemplations and Letters of Henry Dorney (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. 1858. Excerpt: ... A PRACTICAL DISCOURSE OF THE NATURE, MEANS, AND METHOD OF SALVATION. Isaiah 45:17. But Israel shall be saved in the Lord. The poor dove being sent abroad, and gliding over the great flood, at last found an olive branch and returned to the ark. In like manner, my confused thoughts have soared hither and thither, over the face of that great deep in which the first apostasy drowned mankind; and, having turned over the Scriptures, hoping thence to receive some news after such a dreadful shipwreck, this scripture comes flying with an olive branch in its mouth: "Saved in the Lord." The first word keeps from fainting, till the next word comes in, and shows the nature of the deliverance, the certainty and the manner of it; the first word, like Ahimaaz, says, All is well; but Cushi declares the matter, and how it is accomplished.1 Salvation, plainly asserted, is glad tidings; but lest so weighty a business should be mistaken, and that the understanding might be the more convinced; the means by which it is obtained, and the hand from whence it is procured, is drawn forth--"in the Lord." As delightful a sentence to a sinner, as that which Belshazzar saw was terrible to him; that made his joints to tremble; but this makes the lame to leap as a hart; this makes-the wilderness to blossom as a rose. The Meaning of Salvation. Saved.--The spirit and sense of this short word " Saved" reacheth far, even to the ends of the earth.2 It importeth a 1 2 Sam. 18: 28--32. 2 Isa. 49: 6. state of security from all enemies, and all evil from sin,1 Satan,2 condemnation, wrath, and hell;3 from all distress, etc., in this life,4 and hereafter.5 It importeth an investiture and possession of all real good in this life, and in that to come: namely, conversion, calling, justification, ...