Selections from the Writings of James Kennard, Jr

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: THE WAY. And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. ? Isaiah xxxv. 8. It is supposed, that, when he uttered these words, the inspired man spoke...
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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: THE WAY. And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. ? Isaiah xxxv. 8. It is supposed, that, when he uttered these words, the inspired man spoke prophetically of the Gospel of Christ and of his glorious kingdom. What is this highway, which shall be called the way of holiness ? Who are the chosen guides to conduct the lost sheep to this glorious path, which leadeth unto the pleasant meadows and the living waters of heaven ? Are they Catholic, or Protestant; Calvinist, or Lutheran; Unitarian, or Trinitarian ? Has sect any thing to do with it ? Has any one denomination taken out a patent right to carry passengers over this road, and to exclude from the benefits thereof all who will not travel in its vehicles ? Was heaven closed to the Gentiles before the Christian dispensation ? Is it even now eternally sealed to the countless millions who have never heard the name of Jesus ? A Lecture read before the South Parish Society for Mutual Improvement, in 1842. God made man: God is good: therefore, God made man to be happy. God is all-wise: God is all- powerful: he fails not in adapting means to ends: therefore, man will be, must be, happy. Not one man; not one class of men; not one sect of Christians; not even all Christendom, exclusively; but all heathendom also, and all mankind. For all has God provided a broad highway to heaven. And so plain is it, so easily found, that even the wayfaring man, though a fool, though a pagan, though a Mahometan, shall not err therein. What is this highway, this way of holiness, which is so plain to all ? God has never left himself without a witness in the hearts o...