Sermons Essays And Extracts By Various Authors

Author : John Smalley
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ISBN 13 : 9781331845607
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Sermons, Essays, and Extracts, by Various Authors written by John Smalley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sermons, Essays, and Extracts, by Various Authors: Selected With Special Respect to the Great Doctrine of Atonement "Very considerable controversies have been agitated respecting the manner in which unconverted sinners should be addressed in the gospel ministry. And though this is most certainly a very important article, yet there is a great want of unanimity of sentiment respecting it. Perhaps injudicious views of several Calvinistic doctrines have had an unhappy influence upon the minds of some. It must be owned there are characters in the ministry, and such as are zealous for the leading truths of the gospel, who in the pulpit have little or nothing to say in a way of direct address to the unconverted part of their auditory. Nay, some go so far as to contend that this is no part of their work. - How such can reconcile their creed with the example of Christ, the commission he gave to his disciples, and the practice of the apostles, to say nothing of the conduct of the prophets of old, it is not our province to determine. While that text, "Go preach the gospel to every creature," stands in our bibles, we must beg leave to think and act very differently. It is readily owned, that the discourses before us do not immediately handle this subject: yet they discuss a question most intimately connected with it. In the introduction, after remarking the impotence and helplessness of men in themselves, and their entire dependance upon divine grace for salvation, the preacher observes, that "there is a difficulty in the minds of many, how to reconcile this total helplessness of sinners with the sincerity of the gospel call, or with the justice of men's being condemned and punished for their impenitence and unbelief." Several ways in which some have endeavoured to solve the difficulty are pointed out, and their insufficiency shown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.