“THE CHRIST OF GOD” is preeminently the theme of this volume. The sole aim of the writer is, with worshipping reverence, to hold Him before the eyes of the reader, as he has, in his measure, learned how uniformly the Holy Ghost holds Him alone before the hearts of believers in the Holy Scriptures.
All true Christian ministry is the ministry to the soul of Christ Himself: and as one who knows well, after a ministry of thirty years, that the great majority of the saints of God must get their teaching and edification principally through the medium of the spiritual affections, he judges that a book like the Song of Solomon forms a suitable basis for presenting to them a little of what he has learned by the Spirit, of the blessed Lord Jesus in His person, love, life, sacrifice, relationships, official dignities, and moral glories, as the New Testament Scriptures have more fully revealed Him, that thereby the beloved children of God may be nourished with such views of Him as may tend to promote growth in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, that their renewed affections being drawn forth more strongly to Him under the all-constraining power of His love, they may live unto Him who died for them and rose again.
THE PERSON OF THE CHRIST,
Enfolding every grace,
Once slain, but now alive again,
In heaven demands our praise.