The Future of Palestine as a Problem of International Policy [&C.].

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1881 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. THE SPIRITUAL RULE OF CHRIST UNDER THE NEW DISPENSATION. For information as to what we are asked to believe on the subject of Christ-s present existence and influence, we must turn to the Christian Scriptures, for here the Jewish and Christian doctrines are necessarily at variance; moreover, the uncertain light which the Old Testament throws upon this part of the Messiah's work and character is superseded by the much more explicit declarations of the New. A selection of the passages which illustrate the teaching of Christ and the apostles, without any unnecessary comment, will best enable us to avoid the controversies which divide the numerous sects of Christians on secondary and perhaps not vital points of their creed. They all, or nearly so, profess to accept the words of the New Testament in its entirety as their criterion of belief, however differently they understand them. All we are concerned to do here is to quote those words as they are written, and leave the reader to put upon them such interpretation as they appear to him to require or admit of. Take, in the first place, the texts which bear upon the subject of Christ's personal presence after His resurrection: --'But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept' (i Cor. xv. 20). 'Ye shall seek me; but whither I go ye cannot come' (John xiii. 33). 'I go unto Him that sent me. Ye shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am ye cannot come' (John vii. 33 34)-'I go to prepare a place for you' (John xiv. 2). 'Who dwelleth in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen nor can see' (1 Tim. vi. 16). 'Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glor...