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On his return to Scotland, he found his cause somewhat damaged in his absence, by the attempt of precentors to teach his system in congregational classes. Unlike the church-organists of England, the Scotch precentors are not educated musicians a naturally good voice and ear is their only pre-requisite.
And not only that, here is a promise for us, a prophecy for us, of certain guidance and direction, if only we will come to Him and acknowledge our dependence upon Him. The question that was put to them, 'Lads, have ye any meat? was meant to evoke the answer, 'No! The consciousness of my failure is the pre-requisite to my appeal to Him to prosper my work.
As the traditions referred to are well known, and as the purpose of this servant is to be brief, He will refrain from quoting the text of these traditions. They will assuredly protest that this pre-requisite of divine revelation hath not been made manifest. Such hath been and still is their contention.
Most of the Baptist churches now agree with Bunyan, that the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or inward spiritual regeneration, is, alone, the essential pre-requisite to the Lord's table; and they leave members to their own conclusions as to the validity of their having been sprinkled in infancy, or the necessity of immersion in water upon a profession of faith. Ed.
The conclusion therefore is that in the case of householders knowledge has for its pre-requisite all sacrifices and other works of permanent and occasional obligation. 'As a horse. As the horse, which is a means of locomotion for man, requires attendants, grooming, &c., so knowledge, although itself the means of Release, demands the co-operation of the different works. Gi.
'And perhaps it was more for the glory of God, that truth should go naked into the world, said Bunyan, 'than as seconded by so weighty an armour-bearer as he. Bunyan denied that water could form a wedding garment, or that water baptism was a pre-requisite for the Lord's table, or that being immersed in water was putting on our Lord's livery, by which disciples may be known.
"We may get a prize, but there are ten chances to one of our getting a blank." "If you choose to make it a lottery, it will no doubt become so; but if entered into from right motives, there is no danger of this being the case." "I don't know what you call right motives," said one; "but I'll tell you a necessary pre-requisite in the man who is to make me a husband." "Well, child, what is it?"
Uniformity of results from uniformity of conditions is a pre-requisite to sane thinking. In reality, the expression "millions to one" is no more than an appeal to man's awe in facing a stupendous mechanism, and his feeling of impotence when dealing with so complex a subject as the evolution of a world.
But let me remind you how, just as in the Jewish Ritual, the cleansing from all that was leavened was the essential pre-requisite to the participation in the feast, feeding on Jesus Christ, as I have tried to describe it, is absolutely impossible unless our leaven is cleansed away. Children spoil their appetites for wholesome food by eating sweetmeats.
That is the condition as suggested by one of our texts 'a man full of faith, and therefore 'of the Holy Ghost. Now, of course, I believe, as I suppose all people who have made any experience of their own hearts must believe, that before a soul exercises confidence in Jesus Christ, and passes into the household of faith, there have been playing upon it the influences of that divine Comforter whose first mission is to 'convince the world of sin. But between such operations as these, which I believe are universally diffused, wheresoever the Word of God and the message of salvation are proclaimed between such operations as these, and those to which I now refer, whereby the divine Spirit not only operates upon, but dwells in, a man's heart, and not only brings conviction to the world of sin, there is a wide gulf fixed; and for all the hallowing, sanctifying, illuminating and strength-giving operations of that divine Spirit, the pre-requisite condition is our trust.
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