This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...His onlybegotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Or as His well-beloved disciple puts it, "God is love;" and "herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins," (St. John iii. 16, and First Epistle, iv. 10). 55. And if we again revert to the early chapters of Genesis, we have the same truth of God presented to us, partly in figure, partly in history: for our contention is that the creation, the paradisaical state of innocence, the temptation, the fall, the banishment from the tree of life, the protevangelical promise, and the entire subsequent history of mankind, whether sacred or secular, natural or supernatural, can only be rightly apprehended and correctly appraised, by viewing all--as a whole and in its various parts--in connexion with Him who, whether in the ethical or metaphysical sense, is the world-redeeming as well as the world-creating and completing Mediator: and who, as such, becomes the revelation of the love of the all-Good through the grace of the indwelling Spirit. 56. And if this be true, is it not plainly to be seen, why science and philosophy not only have failed utterly to meet the problem of the whence, the why, the whither of things, but have reached the conclusion that herein they cannot know, and even ventured to assert that any notion of teleology, whencesoever derived, is a delusion? For the simple truth is, that the enigma of life, being a moral and spiritual and not merely a rational and intellectual one, cannot be solved except by the aid of the mystery of God manifest in the flesh, in whom and through whom the great teleological truth is...