Remains of Alexander Knox [Ed. by J.J. Hornby]. (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.1834 Excerpt: ... ON THE NATURE OF OUR SALVATION THROUGH CHRIST. Christian piety, according to the great teacher of the Gentile Church, is a combination of three principles: faith, hope, and love. Respecting the two latter principles, there has been no controversy, except such as may be fairly resolved, either into erroneous judgment, vitiated moral taste, or defective mental feeling.1 The nature of faith has, on the contrary, been a frequent question of debate, even where there has been no apparent want, of judgment, conscience, or affection. The most upright in practice, and the most sincere in devotion, have differed from each other in defining faith, or in stating the properties which are essential to its efficacy. It is not my intention to advert to those differences generally. I confine myself to a single question, which I conceive to be of practical importance, and to derive special interest from the present state of, what may be called, the religious world. It is a well known fact, that numbers, at this day, peculiarly distinguished for religious zeal, are of opinion, that, in order to the soundness and efficacy of Christian faith, it is not enough, that the understanding should explicitly apprehend, and the heart affectionately embrace, what are usually denominated the catholic verities; namely, The Trinity in Unity, the incarnation of the second Person, and the efficacious grace of the third, together with the undeniable results of those two latter verities, in the salvation of man; but that, in order to complete the character of evangelical faith, the mind must, also, distinctly apprehend, the expiatory design of our Redeemer's sacrifice of himself; and explicitly rely on the satisfaction thereby made for sin, as the ground of reconciliation with God, and of re-ad...