Sermons on various subjects of Christian doctrine and duty Volume 5 - Brossura

Emmons, Nathanael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1154844927 ISBN 13: 9781154844924

Casa editrice: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

Riassunto

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. 1825 Excerpt: ...from plain, acknowledged facts. All the civil and ceremonial laws given by Moses have actually been superceded and abolished by the christian dispensation. This the apostle John knew; and therefore by the law in the text, he could mean no other divine law, but the moral law, which is as binding under the christian dispensation as ever it was under the Mosaic. I now proceed, II. To consider what this moral law, which is binding upon all mankind, requires. It certainly requires something, that is reasonable, because it is founded in reason; and it will appear to require what is reasonable, according to an infallible exposition of it; by an infallible judge. Our Savior perfectly understood the true import and perpetual obligation of the law, and came to fulfil and magnify it. He said to his hearers in his sermon on the mount, " Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." The Sadducees, who were enemies to the divine law, came to him on a certain occasion. " Then one of them, who was a lawyer, or Jewish teacher, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." According to this divine exposition of the divine law, it requires all men to love God and one another; and implies, that all, who do love God and their...

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• Editore: RareBooksClub.com
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1154844927
• ISBN 13: 9781154844924
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 116