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Two sermons on the interpretation of prophecy
Two sermons on the interpretation of prophecy Author:Thomas Arnold 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: applied to our Lord by himself and by his Apostles; passages which, according to the undoubted evidence of their context, were historically and literally spoken ... more »of some imperfect prophet, or king, or priest', or people, in whom they had found, and could find, no adequate fulfilment. For God had provided some better thing for us than their imperfect righteousness and imperfect blessings. Look at the 91st Psalm, from which the words of the text are taken. How largely does the prophet speak of the security and happiness of the children of God! Our ears are familiar with its words of promise, " There shall no evil befal thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling; thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder, the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. God shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways; they shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." Nor may we rob God's servants in every age of their share in these promises: Moses and Aaron stood unhurt amidst the plague; Paul shook off the adder from his hand, and felt no harm: chariots and horsemen of fire watched round the hill of Dothan to guard the prophet Elisha. But their full and entire fulfilment was in him, and him alone, who had truly made the Most High his habitation even from the beginning; over whom all evil at all times was powerless, save so far as for our sakes f See note 6. chapter{Section 4he vouchsafed to bear it; who said to the sea, Peace, be still; and who even in yielding to death, laid down his life of himself, which none could have taken from him; who had power to lay it down, and had power to take it again. See also how in him, and in him alone, were fulfilled those remarkable promises to David, which otherwise seem incapab...« less