Regnum Dei Author:Archibald Robertson 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: Gloria Dei uiucns homo, uita autem hominis Visio Dei. Irenaeus. Salvation according to Scripture is nothing less than the preservation, restoration, or exa... more »ltation of life: while nothing that partakes or can partake of life is excluded from its scope ; and as is the measure, grade, and perfection of life, such is the measure, grade, and perfection of salvation. Hort. LECTURE III THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT (II.) Kingdom of God as a little child. The Scribe when made a disciple may be abhorred by his fellow-scribes as a renegade, he may be accused as St. Paul was accused of teaching " apostasy from Moses "l—but such misjudgment will not disturb the serene loyalty of his discipled heart. The true convert differs from the renegade above all in this, that his change is not from love to hate, but from love to love: he has learned the higher without coming to despise the lower; the old, through which he has passed, is not disloyally cast aside, but is still his; the time has come, as it had come to Paul the servant of Jesus Christ, when he can " bring forth the old because of the new,"—he is the householder who dispenses from his store things new and old. It was said by Newman2 that "Christianity, though represented in prophecy as a kingdom, came into the world as an idea rather than as an institution." If we must choose between the two alternatives suggested, the statement has an element of paradox. It might be maintained, on the contrary, that our religion first entered into the experience of mankind less as a speculative suggestion, like the philosophy of Plato or the word of some profound religious thinker or inspiring poet, than as an organisation actually at work, in the hands of a definite body of men, among whom alone could the specific lesson of ...« less