A Defence [Signed H.D.] of the Students of Prophecy, in Answer to the Attack of Dr. [W.] Hamilton - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... single part on which he is engaged. It is doubtful whether this humility is not rather idleness, or indifference to the honour of his master: but be that as it may, it is clear that his companion, who has caught, however dimly, a view of the whole, can never go over to the opinion of the other, although the other may come over to him. This then is the whole; to manifest God as the Alone I AM, the alone Pure And Unchangeable One: the only means by which that manifestation could be made, was by manifesting the impurity and mutability of all other beings: for God can only manifest himself, by manifesting the opposite in all other phases and modes of being. This, Sir, is the key to the development of all the individual and collective sin of the human race, of which the Bible is the record: hence the permitted falls of Cain, Lot, David, Manasseh, Jezebel, Judas, Peter, and Mary: hence the permitted idolatries of the heathen, the apostasies of Israel, the corruption of Judah, these last repeated in the Greek and Popish churches respectively, and as its climax, the infidelity of the present times; which last has arrived to such a pitch, that no class of society, whether in the church or out of it, is without the sphere of its influence; so that we may say of it, as Bishop Beveridge does of the bondage of Satan, that those are most under it who most deny its power. To know and enjoy God is the end of the being of the elect; but to be enjoyed, he must first be known. To know God, is not to have an abstract metaphysical idea of a spirit, and a First Cause? bat to know the God who has done all things which ever have been done upon this globe and in our own persons, with the view of shewing us that there is no depth of sin into which each of us is...