The Two Covenants and the Second Blessing (Classic Reprint)

IntroductionIt is often said that the great aim of the preacher ought to be to translate Scripture truth from its Jewish form into the language and the thought of the nineteenth century, and so to make it intelligible and acceptable to our ordinary Christians. It is to be feared that the experiment will do more harm than good. In the course of the translation the force of the original is lost. The scholar who trusts to translations will never become a master of the language he wants to learn. A race of Christians will be raised up, to whom the language of God's Word, and with that the God who spoke it, will be strange. In the Scripture words not a little of Scripture truth will be lost. For the true Christian life nothing is so healthful and invigorating as to have each man come and study for himself the very words in which the Holy Ghost has spoken.One of the words of Scripture, which is almost going out of fashion, is the word Covenant. There was a time when it was the keynote oTable of Contents Contents; PAGE; Introduction 7; I; A Covenant God11; II; The Two Covenants: Their Relation20; III; The First Covenant28; IV; The New Covenant 36; V; The Two Covenants-In Christian Experience 45; VI; The Everlasting Covenant54; VII; The New Covenant : A Ministration of the Spirit 63; VIII; The Two Covenants: The Transition71; IX; The Blood of the Covenant80; X; Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant 88; XI; Jesus, the Surety of the Better Covenant 97; XII; The Book of the Covenant106; XIII; New Covenant Obedience114; 5; Contents; PAGE; XIV; The New Covenant: A Covenant of Grace , 124; XV; The Covenant of an Everlasting Priesthood 132; XVI; The Ministry of the New Covenant140; XVII; His Holy Covenant149; XVIII; Entering the Covenant: With All the Heart 158; N6te A-The Second Blessing168; Note B-The Law Written in the Heart174; Note C-George MOller and His Second'Conversion, 181; NoteD-Canon Batte