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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1882)
* n. r 2 * OHRTSTIA'N' '... •i-4' ___.................................. . * T1RRAT.R. 4- '*** / In nilence, then, the angel» stpod, Reigion. given by Moses 430 years jitter the With folded wings on high ; covenant with- Abraham had **ficen * NCMBEB V. When Jest™ shed his precious blood “ The Law, Not of the Promise.” signed, sealed and fully “ confirm • *. - 3 That inenunight nevendie. ' ed, 1 ' and long after Abraham ’ s ( Proposition 5. A Cause for Re In Galatians iii. and ,jv? Paul And through the Savior we have ' clearly and expressly shows that «IcJith,-it follows that the law could union With. God. tlie Gospel of Christ, , which is the' Hot and y-Trntr^ TP Wi nu vt< >>— t ----------- power of • luise, and could not have been All our interest in “. the blessing of tells the Corinthians that the Gos added to it. • Paul connects all the Abraham/’ or in the Gospel pro pel is as follows : How that Christ blessings of the Gospel to the mise, passes by.jiiMl over “"the hiw ” died for our sins according to the Gentiles, through Christ “ tlm-pro— directly” back to the promise of Scriptures, and that he was buried ndsed seed,” directly back to the “ the Seed,” which is Christ. For and that he rose again the third promise^ or covenant made with (verse 18) if we inherit through or iuIay....jieeording....,tQ...ilm__ Abraham, that “ in thee and in thy Tiy THie law, we do not inherit But how can it lie that the story ,of seed shall all nations be blessed.” through or by' “the promise.” be a violent death and a hasty burial Now he says, that 430 years after cause if we inherit through the and a resurrection from the dead is (3| that Gbspel 'promise or covenant law (verse 17), it. would make the ‘'God’s charm ” by which lie draws m. was maide, and “ 1 »ecause of ., trans promise ol none. effect; and ,-wd men to him and gives them life. gressions, the law was added.” would also inherit-through Israel- sftw; fumitaAn"Jjiur This is not the charm. It must lie vater of life clear as Added to what, asks one ? It w.as But he saith nol “ anti to seeds’’ as river of taught additionally that this was ir lies far but back have of the might issues, not perish, ever certainly added to those whose of many (that is, of Israel), but of ystal done “ for our sins ami “according lasting-life. ” John iii. 1( i .- far a back of the Redeemer, “ transgressions ” had required it. one, “and to thy seed,” and that advent to the Scriptures.” .. of rocks 'Rome, such love, let and aye hills it If it was the “transgressions” of* “seed was Christ. We have no of “Oh the for founding Still more than all these, Paul • • . "' s. Their before lasting silence break ; orbs of the dazzling -Abraham that was the ‘.‘liecause” inheritance “ through seeds,” or existed says, “ How that Christ die«I for And all harmonious human tongues, wheeled into phice, ami the our sills, was buried and rose again.” of its being ad«led, then it was through Israel; and iio Christian is heaven The Savior ’ s praises speak. ” ever re«piire<l to be, or is yallc«l - angels struck tlfe first note in the It then becomes a part of the added to Abraham, as a matter of Jestfsp anthem tells the that “ »Hi Israelite ” in the word of .God. grand of Jewish creation Rabbi new born. course. But Abraham liftd been coming hi this Gtispe] to tell the sin mu7 the man- Every one that was under the the The cause Savior of in his accents of heavenly dead some 400 years, so that it world sin tohl ami d$ath was the story lore ner in whidx Christ did all these music of has that sweet —could not—Or—“ beer 22—nf— friir- God. “ Like -the ‘ forjour sins.’ Yes, " Christ «bed ' himself.: Go«l the so water- loved brom the world “ transgressions,” ami therefore it but Christ re«leemed the Jew (ami of rock which followed the Son Is the just for the unjust that he ought that In* gave liis only begotten could not have Been added to Abny; all sinnersj who a<-cepS him, from riven through believetlC all the years of briny us.to God." This wiis the that whosoever in him ham, nor to the covenant or pro the^cursy of the law, in- order that raelites cause of. our c«iining to God. -Paul ’ mise that God made with him, for they might receive the adoption of wandering in the wilderness the says.this is the means “ by which it could not have 1 teen • “ bec&use of sons. Servants were under law; love of God follows sinful.man in you are saved if ye keep in memoiy the transgressions’’ of either Abryf- but children are free, 'The,, sdhW alibis dark paths of-sin'. “ They what I preached unto you.” Again liam or “ the covenant ” that it was tlie bon< I woman was a servant ami all drank of that spiritual rock the Prince of Life says, “ Ami 1, if added ; and so it Could not have represents the “ Israelite ” who is that followed them ami that rock 1 be lift«-«l up, will draw all men l»een “ added ” either to Abraham “under law” ami “ in bondage?” as was Christ. They could not drink unto me ’♦ The Gospel is the are also her children. But Abra till that rock was smitten) neither or to the promise, or covenant. cold«! men drink of the fountain <if medium through which the lifting not in _ bonda«ni But »us the law was added be • ham was “free” and • —' up bf Jesus reaches us and brings cause of somebody’s transgressions, to the law. nor any part of it. The life through Christ until “lie was the |towei* of Go'l to bear upon us. and we read that “ the,church (?) in fact that it was “ a<l<le«f” 430 years smitten of God ami attlicte«!. God, therefore, draws men to him the wilderness ” sinned so grievous after the Gospel promise proves > That mysterious, inexhaustable, self by charming them. Again the ly, that with the many (or most) of that Abraham was ignorant of it, unfathonable “ river of life ” follows Savior says, “ I am the AJ.ay, the them God was not well pleased, for ami was not under it. If Abraham every child of Adam in whatever truth and the life,” or in -more they in the ha«l been under the Sabbath part of land, or haunts of vice ami wicked * were overthrown • modern English, “ 1 am the true wilderness; bow can there be the it, Paul would luive cxce}itr-«l tlie ness he may lie, -until he, like the’ way of life,” 'This “ True way of least doubt -or uncertainty as to fourth (-ornTiiiiridment of the law Israelites, reaches and crosses the life ” is “ Chief among ten thousand, '&hom it was added ! There can be when he sai«l “ it was a«lded, lie Jordan While they were toiling and the one altogether loVely.” No no more room for doubting as to cause of transgressions” It was on through a desert land.Vlo«! gave whom it was added than there is not Abraham’s “ transgressions,” them bread from heaven and sent a "'under then that» men are drawn to God by his Son since he is so uncertainty as to whose sins was neither was it the “ transgressions ” stream of living water from the .of Isaac, nor of “the see«l ” or the smitten rock to sustain them, but lovely. Through the Gospel of the “ cause “ of its being added. But Paul expressly says that it children of the seed; hut it was as soon as they ha«l jiasse.l the Christ we have the promise of the forgiveness ..of our sins, and by was not added to the Gospel pro the transgressions of “ the com-re- desert and crosseil.the Jonlan they mise, or covenant with Abraham, gation in the wilderness,” the Israel were reaping hopes-fruition in a oltedience thereto, eternal life in the and was no part of it. For the ites, that caused the law to lie “ laml that flowe«l with milk ami great beyond. When one has come into the I hen it was unnecessary only parties to that covenant of given ; and it was only givtn to honey. .Church of Christ lie lias only just promise yvere God and Abraham ; them fitt tlm see«l XChrjst) •shiould to feed and clothe th«.*m by miracle, com«-. ' ~- ami, therefore, they cease«!. Thus enlisted in the army of God and ami no change in it, no adding Though given 430 jA ars after the the lore oj Go<l has ever followed engaged in a. warfare for life. thereto, or disannulling thereof, promise, “ the law was no< against Having lieen reunite«! with God he could be done, unless both, parties the promise,” (verse 21), for it was the children of men in every walk is now a co-laborer with him, and- were present. For speaking after not a«lded t«i that promise, ami did of life. ■ 3^r lmt to return. Jesus said the thus advances “ from glory to the usages ami manner of busines not ami could not affect the,pro mise in any way. This one chapter love of Go«l sent him. into the world glory.” «fames says, “ Pure religion men, Paul says (verse 15) that when is enough to silence the. clamor of men make a covenant, and it is every uncircumcise«! Jew, and all to save men from perishing and and undefiled before God and the < father is thh, to visit (take the « “cm+lirmed ” or ratified by being, wlia..«.lesire- To' bT~umIer law/Lot" give them eternal life. oversight) of the fatherless and the * signed and sealed, no other man, or who “ observe «lays ” in all time t«i I lie Savior left the palace throne, widows in their affliction, and keep And all hi» robes of light ; 1 party, can disannul or add thereto. come. More an«m. And down to earth in triumph camo, _ ' S. C. A dams . I himself unspotted from the world.” Inasmuch, therefore, as the law was. -Salem, Or., July 15, lssj. Io break tli’etiJinul night. I This reunion with God manifests Originaf Contributions. X 1 4 I •» z *< • .. ____ —4--^ .. . « O'