Author: Arthur T. Russell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9781331626862

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life and Works of the Right Honorable and Right Rev. Father in God Lancelot Andrewes, D.D: Lord Bishop of Winchester The second editor has endeavoured to incorporate his own with Bishop Andrewes' doctrine. It is to be observed more over, that whereas the larger additions to the author are dis tinguished as such by the editor, he has also inserted glosses and limitations which are indeed put in italics; but neither are these the only additions, for it is owned in the preface that there are some additions left by mistake in the same character with the rest.2 Very remarkable is our author's reason for the introduction of the new covenant; it is in perfect harmony with the great principle of his theology, that God is all in all: The reason of this second covenant was, that now Adam having lost his own strength by breach of the first, all power and strength should be new from God in Christ, and all the glory be given to him. For if Adam had stood by his own strength in the first, howsoever God should have had most glory, yet Adam should have had some part thereof for using his strength well and not abusing it when he might, but kept his standing. But that God might have all the glory, he suffered the first covenant to be broken, and permitted man to fall, for which fall he was to make satisfaction, which he could not do but by Christ, nor perform new obedience but by the grace of God preventing us, and making us of unwilling willing, and of unable able to do things in that measure that God will require at our He discourses of the order that should be observed in preaching. He will have the law preached first because by it alone men are humbled; then he will have them brought to that covenant by which they can be saved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.