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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.1816 Excerpt: ... LECTURE XIII. Acts iii. 22--26. 22. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things, whatsoever he shall say unto you.--23. And it shall come to pass, that every soul which will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed front among the people.--24. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold ofthese days.---25. Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.--26. Unto you first, God having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. J. His forms the conclusion of Peter's address to the Jews. The object of his address was to secure their repentance and conversion--to produce in them a sincere sorrow for the treatment they had given to Jesus, and to make them evince this sorrow, by actually accepting of him as the Messiah, and thus turning to God. For this purpose he speaks both to their heart and their understanding. He speaks to their heart, by enforcing upon them the aggravated injustice and cruelty of which they had been guilty in crucifying the Prince of Life; by warning them of the awful danger to which they had thereby exposed themselves; and by suggesting to them such considerations as might infuse into their minds the hope of divine forgiveness. And he speaks to their understanding, by pointing out the strong and conclusive evidence of Christ's Messiahship, afforded in-that very miracle which had brought them together, and filled them with astonishment; and by referring them to the close and str...
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