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The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.d., Sometime Rector of St. Giles's in the Fields
The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott Dd Sometime Rector of St Giles's in the Fields Author:John Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 Original Publisher: Clarendon Press Subjects: Sermons, English Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of th... more »e 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: First, He made a full declaration of his Father's will to the world. Secondly, He proved and confirmed what he had declared by miracles. Thirdly, He gave a perfect example of obedience to what he had declared and proved to be his Father's will. Fourthly, He sealed his declaration with his own blood. Fifthly, He instituted an order of men to preach what he had declared to the world. Sixthly, He sent his holy Spirit, when he left the world, to recollect and explain to those men what he had declared, and to enable them also to prove and assert it by miracles. I. He made a full declaration of his Father's will to the world, viz. in those sermons, parables, and discourses of his, which we find recorded in the four evangelists, in which the whole will of God concerning the way and method of our salvation is fully and perfectly revealed. For thus St. Paul declares to the elders of the church of Ephesus, that he had kept back nothing that was profitable for them, but had testified both to the Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, Acts xx. 20, 21. and verse 27. he tells them, that he had not shunned to declare unto them all the counsel of God. Now it is certain that this whole counsel of God, which he had preached, was only that account of our Saviour's discourses and actions which St. Luke gives us in his Gospel, who, as Irenaeus tells us, was a foll...« less