Works of the Rev. John Maclaurin, Late One of the Ministers of Glasgow: With an Introductory Essay (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Works of the Rev. John Maclaurin, Late One of the Ministers of Glasgow: With an Introductory Essay

It cannot be too deeply impressed on the Chris tian mind, that the Bible is the great depository of saving knowledge - that here, here alone, wisdom is to be found, and that this is the place of understand ing. Both the truth and its evidence are to be found in the Bible. Here the mind of God is unfolded; and our great object should be, to have his mind made ours, by this statement of it being understood and believed. It is much to be regretted, that even truly pious persons seem, in many instances, but little aware of the importance of the direct study of the Scriptures, as the principal means of acquiring more extended, and accurate, and influential views of divine truth. They read the Scriptures, indeed, for that is an exercise to which no truly pious man can be a stranger; but they read them almost solely and directly for experimental and practical purposes. They seem to forget that Scripture must first be.

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Excerpt from Works of the Rev. John Maclaurin, Late One of the Ministers of Glasgow: With an Introductory Essay
Professed Christians has not been obtained in this way, that it is found to be so powerless in answering the grand practical purposes of a vital Christianity. It has been most justly remarked, that if we adopt the principles of fallible men, Without searching the Scriptures for ourselves, and inquiring whether these things be so or not, they will not avail us, even al lowing them to be on the side of truth, as if we had learned them from a higher authority. There is a savour in truth, when drawn from the words which the Holy Ghost teacheth, which is lost, or at least diminished, if it pass under the conceptions and expressions of men. Nor will it avail us when most needed; for he who receives his creed from men, may deliver it up to men again. Truth, learned only at second hand, will be to us what Saul's ar mour was to David; we shall be at a loss to use it in the day of.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.