Jesuits -- Controversial Literature; Jesuits -- History -- 19th century
throne; and our certain expectation is to triumph through the might of
his own right hand. It is true, indeed, that they can summon to their
assistance the countless contrivances of human subtlety, but our weapon
is far superior to all, for it is from the Lord himself, it is the sword
of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. There is no denying that they
can assume any guise, and worm their way into the unsuspecting family;
but our hope is in the power of the Spirit, to whom the heart itself is
open as the day. They can meet us, indeed, and perhaps over-match us, in
their varied appliances for intellectual education, they may be powerful
in the pulpit, and attractive in the confessional, but they have no
message that has one thousandth part of the loveliness of ours, for,
unless they are false to their own principles, they can never proclaim to
anxious sinners a finished atonement, and free pardon through the blood
of the Lamb. There is much, indeed, to be apprehended in their close
combination under the able conduct of a well-appointed General; but no
general upon earth is to be compared to the Captain of the Lord’s hosts,
whom God himself has set apart from the beginning to be “the leader and
commander of the people.” Only let us be faithful to that blessed
Master, honouring his word, leaning on his Spirit, at all times setting
forth his grace; and the time will come, as certainly as God’s word is
true, when the whole fabric of Jesuitry shall be split into shivers; when
the prophecy shall be fulfilled, “Associate yourselves, and ye shall be
broken in pieces when the triumphant cry shall originate in heaven, and
shall swell back in a vast echo from a regenerate world, ‘We give thee
thanks, O Lord God Almighty, because thou hast taken unto thee thy great
power, and hast reigned.’”
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
THE ATONEMENT, AS TAUGHT BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. A Sermon, preached
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POPERY THE ACCOMMODATION OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE NATURAL HEART. A
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THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE. A Lecture, delivered before the
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God at the Advent of the Lord. Fourth Edition. Price 1_s._ 6_d._
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Respecting the Lord’s Supper. Second Edition, considerably enlarged.
Price 4_d._, or 3_s._ a dozen.
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