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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: estimate of man's capability of holiness. This would be to sap the foundation of what energy for good might yet be left, and render the Saviour's spirit stirring call to exertion a mockery. ' Strive' is his animating word of command. Can that be addressed to one incapable of action ? Not so! O Christian reader! obey the Word, remembering that the Spirit is yours, to aid and to sanctify your obedience. Follow Christ! Strive! strive earnestly, and life and safety are your own. CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTORY. The reader will now understand that the main object of this work is to bring prominently forward those occurrences in the life of Jesus Christ which have a practical bearing, and are, in their degree, imitable by his followers. How much of help in the conduct of active life how much of comfort under its trials has been lost by passing over such a view of the Son of God! Naturally enough, perhaps, the awful thought of his dying for our sins appears to leave in some minds little room for other consideration. The evident Divinity which enshrines Him in his heavenly doctrine and his heavenly works, seems to fix the mind upon Him only as the very God of very God, unapproachable by man otherwise than with the devotion of a lowly worshipper. And thus absorbed in meditating uponthe wonders of the spiritual world revealed to him, the thoughtful man would fain abide in that high mount of .contemplation, and escape the mingling again with the cares and temptations of this lower world. The great mystery of godliness is the love of the Father, the mercy of the Saviour, and the sanctifying influences of the Comforter; and this is apt to fill the soul, to the exclusion of much else which is needful. Yet a practical faith in the incarnation is of as absolute necessity as a practical faith in...
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