Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... the evangelist'S manual. introductory sketches. section I. Scripture Testimonies in support of the Universal Doctrine. As we accept the saying of one of the eminent Apostles of Christ, that "all Scripture is given by inspiration of God (2 Tim. iii. 16.) and of another, that "no prophecy of the Scriptures is of any private interpretation: For the prophecy came not in old time, by the will of man; but Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." (2 Peter, i. 20, 21.) as also in obedience of our Lord and Master, " search the Scriptures"--we shall in this section, introduce those prophecies and other passages of Scripture, which do most clearly and unequivocally testify of this doctrine as a Scripture doctrine; particularly if we reject the " private interpretation," of certain of those passages, in the creeds of certain sectarian Christians, we will therefore take the plain passages of the Prophets and Apostles, as recorded in our English version of the Bible, objecting only to such parts, as are admitted by the highest and most approved Christian authorities, to be either interpolations, or false, or dubious renderings; and for this liberty, we are sensible, we shall be applauded by every sincere reader. I. Moses. " So God created man in his own image: in the image of God created, he, him, male and female created he them. And God blessed them." (Genesis i. 27, 28.) "And the Lord God said unto the serpent: because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed, and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel...".
