EXTRACT II.
Preaching an Appointed means.
"Wait for this Pilot; for it was not any more necessary for the followers of Jesus to wait, than it is for every individual now present, or under heaven. It is as much our duty now, and the language will apply as much to us as it did to them.—'Tarry at Jerusalem till ye receive power from on high.'—We have no outward Jerusalem to wait in, and there is no need of it; but we are to wait at Jerusalem,—a place of quiet,—with a willingness on our part to know redemption effected in us. We are not to expect it through hearing preaching or running after ministers, or what not; for we shall find that it has all been insufficient to do the work for us." pp. 31, 32.
Is not the preaching of the word, or gospel, a, very principal means appointed by God, for the salvation of man?
What saith the Spirit through the Scripture?
In the first quotation following, the reader will notice the words, "it pleased God." In these words is a full answer to the puny wisdom of man, which sets itself up to point out ways more worthy of God than those which his infinite wisdom has appointed, for communicating the knowledge of his salvation.
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"After that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." 1 Cor. i. 21.
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"Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of |
