Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entercth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. 6:11-19. As the word of God is the sole foundation of all true faith, so is the promise of God the solo foundation of a good hope. According to the texts quoted from the New Testament, our hope rests on the promises madeu'nto the fathers, but especially to Abraham, the chief of the fathers to whom the promises were made. Therefore if wo desire to understand the unfolding of the divine plan for the recovery of a fallen race, we must go to the covenant that God made with Abraham. In regard to these promises, we must come in contact with the three errors noticed in the introduction. To prepare the minds of the readers to appreciate the evidence of the scriptures which we shall now examine, we call attention to what will be found, fully disproving the erroneous ideas concerning the differences of dispensations, which have so largely obtained. 1. To the fathers were fully revealed the divine purposes; to them were given the promises which underlie the divine plan of restoration. It was by such means that Abraham saw the day of Christ, and rejoiced in it. John 8: 56; Gal. 3: 8, 9. 2. The writers of the New Testament clearly and continually teach that Abraham is the father of all who hold the faith of the gospel; that to him were given the promises on which rests our hope; and this, of itself, is sufficient proof that the several dispensations are not independent of each other, but there are essential truths coming down to us through them all, which are common to them all. 3. We are not to infer, because the Saviour did not appear in their days, but did appear in the beginning of this dispensation, therefore their faith w…
