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But you add, 'The faith which entitles a sinner to so high a privilege as that of justification, must needs be such as complieth with all the purposes of Christ's coming into the world, &c. Ans.
Ans. Not a single guess ever made assigning a great age to man, nothing greater than the age indicated by the Scriptures; 2,000,000, or 1,000,000, or 100,000 years are clearly out of the question. If life began 60,000,000 years ago, and the human race 2,000,000 years ago, how much sub-normal should have been the brain and mind of man at that time?
See Hebrews 1:8; John 1:12; Romans 9:5; John 20:28. Quest. But why was he true God and true man? Ans. Quest. How did this Christ bring in redemption for man? Ans. Quest. But how are we justified by this man's obedience? Ans. Quest. How do men come by this righteousness and everlasting life? Ans.
Quest. What qualifications should believers find in themselves for their own satisfaction, before they enter into full communion with the visible Church of Christ? Ans. They should be able to answer the following questions in the affirmative.
When the father wanted to go into the forest to earn money by helping to pile and stack wood ans also chop it, the son said, "I will go with you and help you." "Nay, my son," said the father, "that would be hard for you; you are not accustomed to rough work, and will not be able to bear it, besides I have only one axe and no money left wherewith to buy another."
What tortures of mind and soul, and all that we may die in a few minutes! What should interest us, and why? "Le temps n'est rien pour l'ame, enfant, ta vie est pleine, Et ce jour vaut cent ans, s'il te fait trouver Dieu." To make an object for myself, to hope, to struggle, seems to me more and more impossible and amazing.
It being now nearly eight o'clock, the young gentlemen shall have their usual suppers. Ans. Granted. That a general amnesty shall be proclaimed, and that no person or persons shall suffer in any manner whatever for the part that he or they may have taken in this thoughtless resistance. Ans. Granted, with the exception of Masters Atkinson, Brewster, Davenant, and Rattlin.
II. You ask, 'Was circumcision dispensed with for want of light, it being plainly commanded? Ans. III. You ask, 'Cannot you give yourself a reason, that their moving, travelling state made them incapable, and that God was merciful? Can the same reason, or anything like it, for refusing baptism, be given now? Ans. I cannot give myself this reason, nor can you by it give me any satisfaction.
"Then I am wrong after all," said I to myself. "Has she a husband, sir?" "Pardonnez-moi, elle est veuve, mais elle a un petit garcon de cinq ans, beau comme un ange." "That is she," said I, again reviving. "Is she a French woman?" "Du tout, monsieur, elle est une de vos compatriotes; et en est un fort joli exemplaire."
Ans. That which made Calvin say so, was not any liking which he had to festival days, for he calls the abolishing of them ordo bene compositus; but as himself showeth in the following epistle, which beareth this title, Cal.
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