Download A Hulsean Lectures for 1823, on the Apostolical Preaching of the Gospel to the Jews, Samaritans, and Devout Gentiles, As Exhibited in the Acts of The Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE XVIII. THE NATURE, OPERATIONS, AND BENEFITS OF FAITH, UNDER THE OLD TESTAMENT DISPENSATION. ITS OBJECTS ENLARGED UNDER THE GOSPEL.--APPROPRIATE EXHORTATION. Heb. XI. 39, 40; XII. 1, 2. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. In seven Lectures now delivered on the Epistle to the Hebrews, we have been occupied in considering that part of it which may more directly be considered as argumentative. Not that the remaining portion of it contains nothing of an argumentative nature. But the arguments which remain are very similar in substance, and tend to confirm and illustrate the same positions, which the continuous argument of the former portion is employed to establish; and they are also B B more immediately suited and adapted to practical exhortation. Several of these will be reviewed in the next Lecture. On this occasion it is proposed to direct your attention to that important and well known portion of this Epistle, of which our text presents at once a summary and an hortatory application3. It has already been observed, and it is evident throughout this Epistle, that they, to whom it was addressed, were in danger of negligence, or even of apostasy; not only because of the reasonings of their Hebrew brethren, and the splendour of the Mosaic ritual, which was still existing, and to which they were, for various reasons, much...
