The Old Mine Explored & the Golden Ore of the Gospel Extracted; In an Attempt to Explain & Apply Some of the Principal Types of the Old Testament (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.1850 Excerpt: ... procured for him his alienation from his father's house. So God "has ordained his arrows against the persecutors;" and Christ will regard those who oppose his people as enemies to himself. CHAPTER IV. ON THE TYPICAL PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. ADAM. The great design of Divine Revelation is to bring man back to God, to which purpose it is amply adapted. It finds him in this world as in a waste howling wilderness. It makes him acquainted with his state; and under a sense of its evil and danger, when these are impressed upon him by the Spirit of Christ, he is led to inquire after God his Maker. A moral and spiritual change is produced, and ultimately eternal life is attained, through the righteousness and death of the Son of God. In addition to this its principal use, the sacred volume is intended to explain, to a great extent, the nature and design of the works and providence of the Creator. It is to be a glass in which we may behold them, and his glory reflected by them. In this respect it is of unspeakable importance and value; for the Divine wisdom is often displayed more in the relative situations or positions of objects, their harmony and subordination, and their concurrent operation, than in what they are in themselves. That it is not Psa. vii. 13. in the power of those things to explain themselves may be seen in the case of many who, though surrounded with the various productions of his hand, and, after making them the subject of their study, have failed to connect them with a supreme intelligent First Cause. They have been charmed with the wonders they have beheld, but have lost sight of the Almighty Being to whom they were to be ascribed. Now, of all the works which God performed when he created this world, there were none at once so gre...