Lectures on Important Doctrines of the True Christian Religion (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.1872 Excerpt: ... LECTURE XII. THE TRUE NATURE. OF REDEMPTION, AS CONSISTING IN THE REMOVAL FROM MAN OF THE PREPONDERATING POWER OF HELL, AND HIS RESTORATION TO SPIRITUAL FREEDOM. Luke i. 67--75. "And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began; that we should.be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;--to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant, the oath which he sware to our father Abraham; that he would grant unto us, that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve him, without fear, in holiness and righteousness, all the days of our life." Proposing now to pass to a distinct class of subjects, I will again solicit attention to a few prefatory remarks. The Lectures which have hitherto been delivered in our Lord's day evening services, with a view of explaining, upon the most important subjects, the views which we believe to be those of the True Christian Religion, have nearly all been directed to the purpose of establishing the very first truths which the Christian Religion teaches, --those which relate to the nature and person of the Divine Object of worship. According to the correctness of the apprehensions we form of the nature and person of the Divine Being we adore, will be the correctness of our conceptions in regard to all the other truths of religion: for these all look, as their centre, to the idea of God, with which they are connected; and according to the character of-the idea of God which they assume as their...