ISBN: 9781153960878

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...the Jewish circle. From beholding their Master''s ascension, they returned to the temple to praise God there; and even in their new spiritual life, when the Holy Ghost had come upon them, they knew no home at first but Jerusalem, and no mission but to tell God''s Israel that his Christ had come. This was right for the time being, and yet the mission of the new faith was to all mankind. If the Gospel was not to fail, it must find its way forth to all the nations. For them all the Savior died; not for the Jews alone, but for all the Gentiles. He had already given his command to preach the Gospel everywhere, and make disciples of all the nations, and thus alone could his gracious purpose be fulfilled. And yet the new Gospel was placed first in Jerusalem; and Jerusalem was the spot of all the earth where the home-clinging was the strongest, where unbelief in the possibility of a universal Gospel was most unyielding, and where the prospect of imprisonment and languishing threatened more to universal grace than it would threaten in any other place in all the world. Hence it is easy to see what must be the first problem of Christianity, the first struggle of the new faith. The first work was for Christianity to get out of its cradle. It must first detach itself from Judaism, assert its universal character, and take its place in the broad world as the medium of universal grace. Now it might seem as if Christianity had been placed in an unfavorable spot for this first missionary work, for it had been placed where Jewish exclusiveness would stand up from the first moment as an adversary. But we may just as truly say that Christianity had been placed where the questions that it must first decide would be the first questions to be forced upon it. In Jerusalem the earlies... John Ross Baumes, Books, Religion and Spirituality, The Baptist Quarterly Review Volume 6 Books>Religion and Spirituality The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 6; Original Publisher: J. R. Baumes; Publication date: 1884; Subjects: Baptists; Religion / Sermons / Christian; Religion / Christianity / Baptist;<