Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Have due respect to every truth which God has revealed in his word. — Divine truths are one consistent whole; none of which can be spared without disfiguring the beauty and symmetry of the whole system, and injuring our own souls and the souls of others, by withholding from them a truth which they need for their spiritual improvement and comfort. ...
It is a great mistake to suppose one part of the Bible to be legal, and another evangelical, as if the divine oracles contradicted themselves, — far from it; they make one complete, united, and consistent system. Every truth beautifully fills its own place. Transpose it, and it becomes useless, yea, a pernicious error. Omit it, and a vacancy is left which nothing else can supply.
If divine truths seem to us to militate against each other, the fault is in the medium through which we view them; and because we view them through a false medium, they appear contradictions to us, but are not so in themselves. We, as sinners, want them all; they were intended for our relief as such: and united together as a complete whole, they are a suitable and adequate remedy for all our miseries.
For the reference, see Thomas Charles on the harmony of divine truth.
It is a great mistake to suppose one part of the Bible to be legal, and another evangelical, as if the divine oracles contradicted themselves, — far from it; they make one complete, united, and consistent system. Every truth beautifully fills its own place. Transpose it, and it becomes useless, yea, a pernicious error. Omit it, and a vacancy is left which nothing else can supply.
If divine truths seem to us to militate against each other, the fault is in the medium through which we view them; and because we view them through a false medium, they appear contradictions to us, but are not so in themselves. We, as sinners, want them all; they were intended for our relief as such: and united together as a complete whole, they are a suitable and adequate remedy for all our miseries.
For the reference, see Thomas Charles on the harmony of divine truth.
