An earnest ministry the want of the times.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781425527075
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; History / United States / General; United States - General
First sentence: IN this truly wonderful passage, viewed in connection with its context, are set before us with beautiful simplicity, yet with surpassing grandeur, the theme, the design, and the method of the Christian ministry: the theme is God reconciling the world to himself, a subject compared with which the negotiations of hostile nations and the treaties which put an end to the horrors of war, and bind in concord the fiercest passions of humanity, are matters of only momentary and limited importance: the design of the ministry, which is strictly in harmony with its theme, is to bring sinful men into actual reconciliation with God on the ground of that system of mediation through Christ, which God himself has devised and proclaimed: and its method is the earnestness of persuasion addressed to the rebel heart of man, to induce him to lay aside his enmity against his offended Sovereign, and to accept the offer of a gracious amnesty.