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The History of the Revival and Progress of Independency in England, Since the Period of the Reformation
The History of the Revival and Progress of Independency in England Since the Period of the Reformation Author:Joseph Fletcher General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Original Publisher: John Snow Subjects: England History / Europe / General History / Europe / Great Britain Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christianity / Protestant Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christian Church / History Notes... more »: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER I. PEELIMIIfARY EXPLANATIONS. Chetstianity is the last revelation from God to man. In the sublime language of the Apostle, it is " God speaking to us by his Son." Distinguished from all former revelations by its completeness in respect to the Divine character and purposes, it is not only the interpreter of all previous revelations, but in its own nature final. The Jewish religion in all its provisions anticipated a Divine manifestation, which should illustrate their meaning; the Christian religion contains within it that manifestation, and makes no promise of anything further or clearer for man in his present state. As Judaism was an introductory system, it was confined to one out of the many nations of the earth ; but Christianity, being a complete and perfected system, was designed for the whole world. The inferior economy which contained the " shadows of good things to come," needed not an universal enforcement; but the " good things " themselves are of such a nature as to concern the entire human race. The object of the Christian revelation is, in fact, to restore mankind to God. The simple but sublime end which it proposes is to show how God, as the supreme Euler, and Father of the human family, has made arrangements by which the guilty can be restored to his favour, without detriment to his righteous government. This end is accompl...« less