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Subtitle: To Which Is Added, a Sermon Preached Before the University on Ascension-Day, 1852 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 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: LECTURE III. The extension of God's covenant to the Gentiles apprehended imperfectly by the Apostles at first. Consequent difficulties. S. Paul's argument with the Galatians. The promise, not the Law, the foundation of the covenant. This promise made to Christ. Usage of words Thy seed, collective and particular. S. Peter's application of the promise apparently contradicts S. Paul's. How the two are reconciled. What should be our conclusion, when explanations of apparent verbal obscurities are unsatisfactory. The argument about the word ' Mediator,' (vv. 19,20); ' because of transgressions,' its meaning discussed. Summary of argument. Practical conclusions: (1) The sureness of salvation, based on God's promise, laid hold of by faith. The power of the Christian Preacher derived from conviction of its infallible certainty. (2) How Christ is the end of the Law to us. The object of the Gospel is the subjugation of man's Will. In Self-examination, we should call our Wills to judgment. Are our desires earthly, or heavenly ? H. L. GALATIANS III. 16 and 19, 20. To Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ Wherefore then serveth the law ? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. TT was natural, when Christianity was first -- promulgated, that t...
