The Oberlin Evangelist Volume 7 8

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. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... and gained its shadow. The Word of God tells us of a fountain whose wa lual life, and whose supplies shall never fail. Fortlie heart that has become faint and weary in the service of the Iworld, for the soul that is bowed down by care, tost with disquietude and harrassed by remorse, there is a lountain of refreshment which offers to renew the suf l-Suppose these laws are dormant Then they dot ferer by a nobler strength than that of nature, and bias, him with the experience of a more glorious, because immortal existence. He has no savage wilds to 11-93, to reach it. no hostile bands to battle with, to win the right to drink of its waters. Its streams flow down tr) him from the Cross on which the Redeemer died and from the throne where he intercedes for sinners. They are ofl'ered to him in the living oracles of the Divine Word--in the Christian ordinances---in the Church of the living God. They come through prayer, through meditation, through the exercise of penitence, through the efforts of faith, through God's Spirit vouchsgfed to sincerity ofheart, and earnestness in the pursuit 0fdutv_ rcfiman. ' The Oberlin Evangelist ls published every alternate week. Each volume begins the first Vednesday of January, and closes with the year, containing twenty-six numbers, with a. title page and index. 1. Taking into view the whole of the verse of which the text is a part, it is obvious that there are two prime ideas involved in the syiiritqfthe i'n_junction: ---namely, 1. A caution against giving attention to things that are idle and profitloss. By " profane and old wives' fables," Paul may have referred to the doctrines of the Rabbies, than which nothing can well be more worthless and ill befitting a sensible and Christian...

Continuing on in the final book on his mammoth work on theology, Hodge finishes his thoughts on the work of Christ, Salvation and the Holy Spirit. He lines out the thinking and fallacies of many evangelical and Roman Catholic schools of thought while clearly explaining the Reformed way of thinking. He concludes this tome with the Calvinist teachings on the final days of both the earth and humanity when they die. Again laying bold arguments for the Reformed way of thinking, Hodge is able to articulate clearly and Biblically this way of theological thought while giving credence to the past.

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. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...What does wisdom in your case demand t Surely that you should set yourself most earnestly to seek God's favor--that you should stop in your thoughtless career of self-indulgenee--that you should change the very object of your life, and live no more for selfishness, but henceforth, for Godthat you should arrest those influences that have long been molding your heart for the sympathies and horrors of spirits lost, and hasten to como under those which will transform you into likeness to the spirits blest r, n high. And now, " whoso is wise shall be wise for himself, but whoso soornetb, he alone must bear it. H C. List of Letters, the receipts of the Oberlin Board of Education, and J. A. T. cn searchiug the Scriptures, ncjtt number. For the Obcrlin Evangelist. CHRISTIAN UNION.--No. I. INTBODUCTIOW. John 17: 20--23. Neither pray I for these alone, hut for them also which shall believe on me through their word. That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may Le one even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in i nej and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me." The visible Church of Christ is greatly divided in form, and her several portions are grievously alienated from each other in feeling-. '1 hese are believed to be unquestionable facts. There is some question however, even among good men, whether--her human nature and her piety being what they are--her present multiform organization is not the best possible. Of course, while this remains a serious question, no...

"This book will take its place in libraries next to the finest works abou;this creative thinker." -- Religious Studies Review "... gives a fine sense of the present state and the future direction of Edwards studies... Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students." -- Choice "... this volume opens up new windows, not only on previously neglected texts of Jonathan Edwards, but on the larger cultural functions and effects of those texts." -- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Here is a compact survey of current Edwards scholarship. These essays present groundbreaking contemporary scholarship focusing on the writings of the 18th-century American philosopher and theologian Jonathan Edwards. They range widely across the Edwardsian canon, including his most prominent and important published texts -- Religious Affections and The Nature of True Virtue -- as well as unfamiliar treatises and sermons.