A Lecture On Science And Revelation Second Edition

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...exigencies of man's condition in relation to God, the gospel is every way justified to reason, inasmuch as it has power to magnify the law and reclaim the sinner. Its power to magnify the law arises from the fact that while the sinner is forgiven, it is only because the lawgiver, Jehovah himself in the person of his Son, came out of the form of God and assumed the nature of man, and as man, fulfilled all the righteousness of law and bore all its curse, --thereby acquiring a merit that would have outweighed the demerit of a thousand worlds, --a merit achieved by a prostration which must render the sin that caused it a more loathsome and horrible thing than it could have ever been rendered by all the blasphemies of earth and all the torments of hell. Again, the power of the gospel to reclaim the sinner lies in the fact that it reveals the love and mercy of God towards man--a love that stooped from the throne of heaven to the cross of Calvary, that it might come within his reach, --a love also that is associate in him who brings it with the beauty and grandeur of moral perfection; a love therefore, which must at once melt the heart, and win the fancy, and transform the soul. Of this, how ever, I shall have in the sequel a great deal more to say. Meanwhile I content myself with affirming that no man can intelligently and realizingly apprehend the incarnation and atonement of Christ, without becoming a new creature in him. No being in any world can understand the gospel, without the shuddering recoil from the form of sin, and a newborn delight and complacency in the character of God. There are many questions of serious difiiculty connected with the view of the atonement I have given which would demand consideration. There are especially...