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The Present testimony, and original Christian witness revived (1870)
The Present testimony and original Christian witness revived - 1870 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: And if to any there seem after all in this, something that seems too much like a mere wonder to be God's utterance, I would beseech such an one to remember how o... more »nce a burning bush was made just such a wonder to attract a passer by, and how when he turned aside to see, a voice out of that bush proclaimed that God was really there. Even so may it not be strange that He should attract now by a kind of wonder, to listen to a story which He loves to tell, and for those who turn aside to see, may the same voice, now as then, be heard. F. W. G. N. III. THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE WRITTEN WORD AND THE USE OF IT. 2 Peter in. God never leaves His people without light sufficient foi their way. To the patriarchs he appeared from time to time, to direct them in their pilgrim journeys: in visions too and by dreams He communicated to them His will. He appears to Isaac to forbid his contemplated descent into Egypt. He spake in visions of the night unto Jacob, to encourage him to sojourn in it. Under the law, by dreams or visions, by Urim and Thummim, or by prophets, the people of Israel received divine guidance for the circumstances in which they were placed. The law pointed out what they ought to do; but when declension came in, prophets were raised up, to recall the people to their allegiance, to direct them at the time, and to tell them of the future. The written Word of God, as they received it, was liable at any time to be supplemented by fresh revelations communicated to a prophet, who might be of humble origin, as Amos, one of the herdmen of Tekoa; or a member of the family of Aaron, as Jeremiah, or Ezekiel. Such a condition of things, whilst serving to impress them with a sense of the Lord's constant care for their well-being, must have tended to keep them 'looking around to ...« less