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Vol. 20, Ecclesiastical 4
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Excerpt: Timothy is charged before God and the Lord Jesus, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom. So the crown is a crown of righteousness; men must strive lawfully, and, laboring first, partake of the fruits. The Lord, the righteous Judge, gives him the crown of righteousness; so, as to all others, it is laid up for those who love His appearing.
But he had just spoken of His appearing as the time of judging. And so it is, first the quick, and afterward the dead. How love it? Now this supposes, first, the most complete association with Him and acceptance, judgment being set aside for us.
But more, loving His appearing supposes that its present realization awakens no feeling of anything which would have to be judged, which would hinder our loving that which will set aside evil. It is the time of glory for us. When He shall appear, then shall we appear with Him in glory. But then it is the setting aside evil; so that, if anything is allowed in us, anything not suited to His appearing, if we are not wholehearted in the setting up of His glory, we cannot practically love His appearing. This gives, in the midst of general decline, a solemn but a very blessed character to the instruction of the epistle; indeed it all supposes great personal nearness proportioned to the general decline.
May we so judge ourselves, and so hold fast by that blessed One!
Table of Contents
1. Narrative of the Facts, Connected With the Separation of the Writer From the Congregation Meeting in Ebrington Street
2. Letter to the Saints Meeting in Ebrington Street on the Circumstances Which Have Recently Occurred There
3. Account of the Proceedings at Rawstorne Street
4. Account of the Proceedings at Rawstorne Street
5. Account of the Proceedings at Rawstorne Street
6. Account of the Proceedings at Rawstorne Street
7. What Investigation Has There Been at Plymouth?
8. Summary of the Meetings in London, February, 1847
9. Two Letters as to Plymouth
10. To the Brethren at Rawstorne Street
11. Confession of Error by Some, Letter on the
12. Acknowledgment as to Plymouth, Letter of
13. Indifference to Christ, or Bethesdaism
14. Church Which Is His Body, The
15. God, Not the Church, the Teacher by His Word
16. Discipline and Unity of the Assembly
17. Baptism Not the Communication of Life
18. Reply to Defense of the Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration, A
19. Lord's Supper, Reply to Some Questions on the
20. Disendowment Disestablishment
21. Remarks on "Is Modern Christianity a Civilized Heathenism?"
22. What Is the Unity of the Church?
23. Episcopacy: What Ground Is There in Scripture or History for Accounting It an Institution of God?
24. Churches and the Church*
25. Ephesians*
26. Church, Thoughts on the
27. Vaudois, The
28. Spirit and the Assembly, Brief Remarks on the
29. 2 Timothy, Remarks on