The Complete Duty Of Man, Or A System Of Doctrinal And Practical Christianity

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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Original Publisher: American Tract Society Subjects: History / General Religion / Christian Life / General Religion / Christian Life / Devotional Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Devotional Religion / Christian Ministry / Discipleship Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Christianity / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the 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: CHAPTER VII. OF ITS PERFECTION AND USE. We have now endeavored to delineate the character of God and the natural state of man, as they are revealed in Scripture ; the next subject, with which all men ought to be fully acquainted, is the nature of the Law. The Law, with its terms of perfect righteousness and life on the one hand, and of disobedience and death on the other, is the first thing which the word of God presents to our notice ; and till this is known, the Gospel cannot be understood, nor the grace of God be duly received ; for the Gospel is the revelation of God's way of delivering a sinner from the curse of the law. The intimate connection which subsists between the Law and the Gospel is frequently taught in Scripture, yet from a natural reluctance to confess ourselves the guilty impotent creatures we are, and from a false construction of what is spoken of the law, as if it related only or chiefly to the Jewish state, this connection is fatally overlooked by multitudes who profess themselves christians. To remove such hurtful ignorance, I shall lay before you the perfection and extent of the Moral Law ; the excellent ends it perpetually answers wherever it is duly received, and the pernicious errors which must possess and...

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