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. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE FOREGOING DOCTRINES STATED AND OBVIATED. Although some occasional objections may have been answered where they occurred, so many will be raised, and some of them soextensive, that it appears most advisable to include the most considerable of them in a chapter expressly for that purpose. Some of them will likely appear more like discussing other doctrines than answering objections; but as they all come in opposition to the doctrine heretofore stated, as well as what will follow, I have concluded to treat them all in the line of objections. And, 1st. It is objected that the law must be magnified and made honourable--that mankind have broken the law and are unable to restore it: this therefore must be the work of Christ in their stead. " The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. (Isa. xlii. 21.) These words are read with application to Christ as obeying the law, magnifying and making it honourable, in the room of men, as their surety, so that God the Father is well pleased with them for the sake of his obedience, or righteousness. But such a use of this text evidently indicates a previously constructed plan into which it is pressed. A man must be hardly beset for support to a favourite scheme, if he will consider this Scripture in its connection, and then employ it with confidence to defend the notion of justification by the righteousness of Christ imputed. For there is not one word, either in this text or its connection, to show that it relates to Christ in any part of the character peculiar to him as Mediator. The character described, in the immediately preceding part of the paragraph, is excessively wicked and disobedient, in no sense or...
