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Parting Counsels; An Exposition of the First Chapter of the Second Epistle of Peter, With Four Additional Discourses
Parting Counsels An Exposition of the First Chapter of the Second Epistle of Peter With Four Additional Discourses Author:John Brown General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Notes: 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ADDITIONAL DISCOURSES. DISCOURSE I. HOW CHRISTIANS MAY KNOW THAT THEY ARE OF TUB TRUTH, AND MAY ASSURE THEIR HEARTS BEFORE GOD. 1 John iii., 19-22. -- And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, aud do those things that are pleasing in His sight. The First Epistle of John is a very remarkable composition. It is unique among the New Testament writings. It has more the appearance of a written exhortation than of a familiar epistle. While, on a cursory perusal, it may appear to be a collection of desultory and unconnected remarks, it is found, on a more careful examination, to be an expansion of one great thought -- ' Fellowship with God through Christ Jesus, the foundation and means, the sum and substance, of holiness and happiness, is the great end of the Christian revelation.' From the Epistle1 opening with a reference to a statement which the apostle had previously made to those to whom he is writing -- a statement which, from the description, appears to have contained a more detailed account of the great facts respecting Jesus Christ as " the Word of life," (that is, as he explains the term, "the manifested life,"2 the revelation oftho 1 Chap. i. 1-4. 2 Ver. 2. Living One -- the revealed Living One), a fuller statement of who He was, what He became, what He taught, and what He did, than is to be found in the Epistle itself...« less