The Works of John Angell James, Vol. 10

Download or read book The Works of John Angell James, Vol. 10 written by John Angell James and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of John Angell James, Vol. 10: Onewhile Minister of the Church Assembling in Carrs Lane Birmingham "The Anxious Inquirer after Salvation Directed and Encouraged," "Christian Progress," "The Christian Professor," "Christian Fellowship, or the Church Member's Guide," and a Manual for the Author's Church, preceded by a Tract and a Preface to a friend's work, are here collected into two volumes. The Editor had determined on entitling this division of the Author's works "The Christian Life" before he observed that a treatise so called was in the course of sale, and he has retained the title, as no confusion can result from it. The work first mentioned has the interest (without adverting to its subject) of being the Author's masterpiece, by which he became best and most widely known in the church of God. The circulation which it has attained in the British Empire and in the United States is unexampled, and very interesting details connected with it will be found in the Author's Life. It has been thought to confuse Justification and Pardon, but the quotations, made in proof of this, point out the distinction between them supposed to be disregarded. Statements contained in it have also been objected to as representing faith to be merely an act of the intellect, but the expressions used convey the idea of trust and self-appropriation also. And this second objection seems to answer a third, that the reader is detained from the contemplation of Christ, in order that he may test (by this trust) the reality of his faith. Passages relating to the imputation of Christ's righteousness have been considered inconsistent with each other, which, when quoted entire, appear in harmony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.