Recollections and Remains of George David Doudney, Ed. by His Brother-In-Law [D.A. Doudney].

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. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called liy thy name, to take away our reproach.--Isaiah iv. 1. What is the general profession of our day? A system of philosophy drawn from the Bible, but so contrived that every doctrine and statement in that holy word which is opposed to the carnal mind, and calls up the enmity of the natural man, is carefully hidden, neutralized by-a lie, or explained away according to one of the rules laid down by the most popular of our modern commentators: Nor should he (a minister) embrace any opinion whatever which will in form, or in fact, cramp him or restrain him in thus offering salvation to all mankind. The fact that Christ died for all, and that-all may be saved, -should be a fixed and standing point in all systems of theology, and should be allowed to shape every-other opinion, and to shed its influence over every other view of truth. If this is not high treason against Jehovah Himself, we know not what is 1 What does it say, if it does not say this? Whatever God may have revealedof His eternal purpose of love to an elect people, in steadfast and open defiance of that revelation, it should be rejected; it should not be embraced: it may cramp Him or restrain Him in thus offering salvation to all mankind. Oh, desperate wickedness! To save the existence of an idol, the offspring of the cunning father of lies, and the carnal enmity of the natural mind to the-sovereign grace of God, the clear revelation of the mind of Jehovah is to be cast aside and trampled in the mire as an unholy, a pernicious thing! But that which renders this system of modern philosophy, called religion, so entangling to the Lord's little ones, is that, ...