The Life Everlasting; What Is It? Whence Is It? Whose Is It? (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. 1883 Excerpt: ...perversions of the adversary, nor the teaching of a false philosophy, nor the traditions of an apostate church, nor the conceits of its professed friends, with which it has been overlaid, and loaded down, should have been able altogether to quench its light--though they have sadly dimmed its lustre--nor wholly to stay its progress in the world--though they have greatly hindered it--this does indeed excite our admiration and astonishment, and assures us that it is possessed of a living force which nothing can extinguish. If under all these repressing and obscuring and smothering influences, such blessed fruits have followed in its train wherever it has gone in the earth, what must be its real power when it shall be permitted to shine forth in all its heavenly effulgence, and to what a speedy and universal triumph must it go forth throughout the world, when this "glorious Gospel of the blessed God," as the simple message of Life, Life, Eternal Life, shall be permitted torun, and have free course, and be glorified? Introductory Remarks. The Bible is not an argument: it is a Revelation. It utters truths. It states facts and principles. It does not undertake to prove them. We may exercise our reasoning faculties upon its utterances, and endeavor to formulate them into a rational system; we may attempt to bring proofs of what it says from other sources; but whether we can do this or not--if we honor the Scriptures as the Word of God--we are supposed to accept its plain and unequivocal declarations as a sufficient and ultimate authority for our belief. If on any point its utterances are vague, or appear to be inconsistent with each other, or in conflict with other known facts, we must, indeed, exercise our reason in solving the difficulty. For it is evid...