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Three Books of God; Nature, History, and Scripture, Sermons, Ed. by G.st. Clair
Three Books of God Nature History and Scripture Sermons Ed by Gst Clair Author:George Dawson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHRIST AND MOSES: LOVE BETTER THAN LAW. Morning, December it)(h, 1S75. " For the love of Christ constraineth us." -- 2 Cor. v. 14. The Apostle Paul is here speaking in that strong, passionate way in which his great deep heart made him speak whensoever he was meditating upon what he had been and what he was now. He had begun to set forth how he had learned that what once he counted wisdom, now was foolishness to him, and vice versa. The things he once prided himself upon, now he trampled underfoot, and the cross, which to him was once a sign of shame, was now a sign of glory. The things he had fought for, and persecuted others for neglecting, had now for him passed away; and he had changed masters, altered his principles, changed his aims, been bornagain, and become a new man. That others might see what he saw, he was willing to seem mad: " For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God ; or whether we be sober, it is for your cause; for the love of Christ constraineth us." Now, that phrase has a deep truth in it, as such strong, passionate language ofttimes has. For ofttimes, when the heart speaks, all the other powers seem to be brought into sweet accord with it, and the voice is mostly the truest and most accurate interpreter of the heart . The mind itself becomes greatened when it sets forth the utterance of the heart. Some of you think that love and constraint ought not to be brought into company. There is a seeming harshness about the words constraint and restraint; a harshness which sounds like the clink of a chain in a prison house ; a note of compulsion against which the soul rises up in r...« less