The Difficulties of the Pre-Millennial Advent (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tion can be answered according to the laws of evidence, by which we believe that Jesus is the Christ. It has been maintained by learned and esteemed brethren, that the sacerdotal functions are necessarily incompatible as to their exercise by the same person at the same time. Without citing the case of Melchizedec, who was not only a priest, but doubly a king " first, by interpretation King of Righteousuess, and secondly, King of Salem which is King of Peace," which ought ever to prevent the utterance of a sentiment so rash?let us enquire what are the proper acts of a king, a sovereign prince?to legislate, administer his own legislation, and to judge. Come then to the Mount and listen to Jesus while he abrogates many of the national statutes given at Mount Sinai, and introduces the elements of a new code for the new dispensation. " It hath been said of old time?but 1 say unto you." The reiteration and assertion of authority in the sermon on the Mount, manifest intolerable presumption on any other ground, than that it is indeed the King of glory who thus legislates. His personal ministry closed, his martyrdom over, his sacrifice offered, the atonement finished, and victor over death, standing on the Mount of Olives in all the moral grandeur of the Divine Majesty, he inaugurates the new dispensation the reign of peace, grace, and mercy?" All power in heaven and on earth is given unto me, go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." Is not this an exercise of kingly authority equal to what was witnessed on the flaming Mount? Then the engagement to superintend that administration to the final close. " Lo / am with yon always even to the end of the world." Can any question the assertion of royal prer...