The Reformed Presbyterian magazine Jan 1855July 1858 186276 - 1866 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 as the mutual love of those who are, in common, begotten by the Word of God, leads them to look upon one another as " living " with a life that is everlastin... more »g—as heirs of an " inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away"; so it instinctively leads them, as the children of an immortal family—into which they have been newly born—to desire the unadulterated milk of the Word, that they may grow thereby in the incorruptible life into which they have been begotten. Having found the Lord in His Word, and "tasted that he is gracious," they are taught to " lay aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking," as altogether incompatible with that simple, pure fellowship with God, and with one another, into which they have been called. In the degree in which the Word of the Lord is dwelling in us, even that " word which by the gospel is preached unto us," we will be made true, simple, genuine, humble, holy, understanding and earnestly seeking to realise all that is right—in respect of sentiment as well as conduct—in our relations both to God and man; such passions as envy and malice will flee away as ashamed to be seen where the light of the Gospel is shining; and all deceptions and hypocrisies will be unable to lift up their head before the bright face of eternal truth. What evidence this furnishes of the adaptation of the Word- of God to our moral nature ! There is nothing anywhere so cleansing, so transforming, so simplifying, so purifying. It searches as with lighted candles every hidden thing of darkness, and discloses to us the good and the evil, as if it were preparing us for the scrutiny of the coming judgment. It makes us live, even in our inmost feelings, towards one another as well as towards God, under the light of...« less