Daily Republican., 1889-01-11

the heathsa through faith, preached before
the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee
and In thy seed shall all the families, all
the nations Of earth be blessed" This
gives the gospel precedence OF law. This
covenant God confirmed by his solemn
oath, and in 1t are no contingencies, either
expressed or implied; how, then, could d
conditional covenant, based upon ODE.
dience to law given four hundred and
thirty years afterwards, annul this oath
bound, unconditional covenant "The
law was given by Moses, but grace and
truth came by Jesus Christ" And Christ
Jesus, and bis body, or bride, are the
seed OF Abraham, through whom and
BY whom all the nations OF the earth
shall be pleased" 10 reads the promise
and oath Of God, stand by these two i'm
mutable things, 1t 10 impossible for God
to lie Christ and his bride are the
sample and "hrst fruits of the new splr-
itual creation, ""one with him as he Is one
with the Father"
They are the only divinely delegated
agents, by whom the promise and oath Of
God can possibly be consummated. And
now, that Christ Jesus has been gifted
up from the earth, he will draw all men
unto himself" "For he came not to do
bis own VIII, but the will OF him who sent
him." Aud knowing that the eternal
purpose oil the Father is In him, and that
he, God, our savlor, will have all men
to be saved, and come up to the knowl-
edge of the truth, for there is one God,
and one medic tor between God and men,
the man Chrlst Jesus, who gave himself
q NQr aGn fnr all 10 ha EAI H.. I..a
time" And In that "due time" ''He will
IL his Gathers will.n Is not his gospel,
to be ''eood tidings OF great Joy, which
shall be t. all people," Do you know
that ''this gospel OF the kingdom has
been preached to every creature which
was under heaven, whereof l Paul am
made munster" eighteen hundred years
ago, and that the end came them And
that this gospel was ''the power of Gcd
unto salvation, to every one that believed
1T" And only those who were "predes-
tipated" could, or did, believe, Gods
"due time" for working out his purposes
has been sadly overlooked. Now, let us
say In all kindness TO prede stlnarlan, and
those who place the human will as bar
rier to the executions OF Goods eternal
purpose, which he purposed In Christ
Jesus before the world began" Serious
ly, brethren, aren't you on the wrong
tiack' or more properly speaking, aren't
you of the trark3 or perhaps it would be
letter put In this way, were you ever on
u right track? This Is serious ques-
tion indeed, and one which the New les
lament alone must settle. OF one thing
we are morally certain; that is this; AT
no time, since the translation of the bride
of Christ, has tie world seen, or the pres
emit gospel produced, any one of whom 1t
could be said truihfully, "That man ia
born of God" because, US before said,
this invo'vts new creation" And
new creatures are not the subject OF
death, SO that our ideas of the thew birth
or regt neratlon" are entirely too tame
too natural.
We do not comprehend 'sthe mighty
power OF God, which lie wrought In
Jesus when He raised Him from the
dead" For now the same spirit dwell
llrg In His bride changed their mortal
b dies by His spirit dwelling in them, sc
that mortality was swallowed up of HE. ,
Ne cannot deny the fact In their case
but do we comprehend III Must we moi
wait until I've see Him as He isl" Hi
prevalent idea of our "souls at death
going to be with him" is childish, ant
subversive OF all scripture variant. All
that have gone up, as yet, took theii
bodies with them. Without these they
mould, have no identity. THIS foolish
idea is responsible for all the vagares o.
modern spirituallsm. No, It Yves the
bodies of the bride which were quickcned
changed and made ineoTrupiible, likt
unto their living head And 1t must be
our bodies, which must undergo the same
process, either Of Translation when He
comes, or surreetion from the dead.
There Is no other way. Any other way
would make us 'Ihieves and robners. y
Allow me In kindness to suggest the pro-
priety of waiting till tho second Adam
comes 70 eommenee the work of regenera.
ton and see what the Fathers will Is, for Ht
certainly will eonsummate the will of Hii
Father, and then "Iie brings His wit
nesses with Him ss the light OF the world
the falt of the earth" His purpose is tC
khow US the only body of saints in theli
glorifed state that have as yet risen tC
this high and holy calling, In order thaI
we may believe that the Father sent him
See John xvii, 81, %, %, "a.
When Christ shall have consummated
the eternal purpose of His Father, "Ht
will have drawn all men un,o Himself. u
"And every creature which Is In heaven,
aud ON the earth and under the earth,
and such as are In the sea, and all that In
them is, shall be heard saying, Blessing,
aud honor, ami glory and power, he unto
Him that sltteth upon the throne. and
unto the Lamb forever, aud forever,
amen" For .God hath purposed In
Himself, that in the dispensation of the
fullness OF times He might gather to
gether in one all things in Christ, both
which are in heaven, aud which are on
earth, even in Him" Aud as the trophies
OF His redemptive power and work, pre-
sent 10 the astonlsntd gaze of angels, q
regenerated race, In holy, happy harmony
with Gol's eternal purpose in Him, all
bearing the image and likeness OF Christ,
and In holy tri mph exultingly exclaim,
behold, |, and the children which Coz
hath given me-" Then, indeed, may
1.-THE morning stars sing together, and
all the SONS of God shout for very Joy, %
"Blessed are the people which know the
joyful sound, which shall be to all PEG
pie" What marvellous grace, what
wondrous love, omnipotent power designs
TO prove.
We have only outlined this subject; the
New Testament challenges the faith of
every truth seeker to hkrmoniss It's teach
ings from any other p lint of view. God
has done something grand and glorious
for the benefit of our poor, blinded, de-
luded humanity. He has prepared already
the agents OF the worlds regeneration,
and In His own good time will ''mani-
test" them to this gro4ning creation as
"the Sens OF God" May He hasten 1t In
His time, amen.
STEWART CARLISLE