Memoir and Remains of the Rev James Aitken

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO THE SAME. IN ANSWER TO SOM K REMARK8 ON THE LATTER PART OF THE FIR8T EPISTLE TO THE THE88ALONIANS. Paisley, August 12. Looking at the close of the fourth, and the whole of the fifth chapter of 1 Thessalonians, don't you think the aim of the apostle is to lift up the souls of the Thessalonians to the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO THE SAME. IN ANSWER TO SOM K REMARK8 ON THE LATTER PART OF THE FIR8T EPISTLE TO THE THE88ALONIANS. Paisley, August 12. Looking at the close of the fourth, and the whole of the fifth chapter of 1 Thessalonians, don't you think the aim of the apostle is to lift up the souls of the Thessalonians to the Unseen, by fixing their thoughts on the certainty of the event, and the uncertainty of the time of Christ's coming. The fifth chapter is, so to speak, the practical application of the whole subject. Saturday.?To-morrow I intend to lecture on the third part of the 119th Psalm, and preach from Luke xiv. 19. Open your Bible at the 119th Psalm, and I will try and give some thoughts that are not yet on paper. Deal bountifully. To those who look upon Christianity from without there are many seeming paradoxes. In the child of God there is boldness in approaching the throne, mingled with humility. Strength and weakness, joy and sorrow, are strangely commingled. Here, for example, wemight at first sight be apt to think there was something of presumption, but a little closer insight shows that it springs from the very opposite, namely, a consciousness of his own emptiness. That I may live. This is a personal question. Was he not living before this? Was it not that he might now live for a proper object, and in a right manner? What is the object of life? How this should banish all indifference Keep thy word. It is to be the guide of life. Open mine eyes. Personal experience teaches us the necessity of this, when we see so many whom the world calls wise and great stumbling over the plainest testimony of Scripture. Wondrous things. There were many even in David's day. There was the reality of forgiveness, as shown on the great day of atonement, the mercy and majesty of J...