Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1881.] TKE EvERL.UTINQ.
wbeu they rea.l the worda of tbe apoetle who said. " Whotloevet'
aball keep the whole ~w. and yet offend in one point. he ,
ia guilty of all" (JamH 11. 10). they oloae their oonacienee,
and eu•phatically declare, " If 1 do the heat I can," -aud silent.
ly. aa a reaerve thought. "oonvenient for my purposes.-" God
will not oondemn me for not having dont~ better." Are these
they who follow afttlr righteousneu? Moat certainly not:
they are tho11e who follow the deAirea of thf'ir own hearts.
They_ may honor their father, and their grandfathers. but they
have no idea of honoring the true father whom Yahveh hath hon.
wed. and upon whoae poaaeaaiona all their future hope11 depend.
· TbnA the whole of Gocl'11 plan and purpose, the whole plan
of aalvatinn, is Ret a~~ide 11.11 " thing that i11 abrogated: and
mauy into whoae h~tndA theae line~~ fall will tou them uide and
11ay, .. i am not under law--that iM the old law; I am under
gnwe." But you are nut untlt.>r the fa\·or nf God unlea~~ you
ttre in the line of hi11 l'ovemmt: for what .. God 1loeth, it ahRll
btl fm'tlvea·: nothing c•an be put to it, nor anything taken from
it : anti HtMI tloet h it. that m.-u t~honlcl fear befnre him " ( 1-;.~1.
111. 14 )..
· Therefore non~ of the pttrJ>OI'f'M uf the 041ndition11 of the oov ..
uaut. that he made with A braham our father are ohaoged in
tht> alightt'llt degree: anti nnl611a we aOt!ept and honor our fatlaer
anti mother. Ahraham and Sar,.h. by ac•oepting the oovenaat'
conditions that God made with hia people. we have no part
with their po11terity. neither baa the Bible nor any of ita~
inga. from GeneaiR to Revelation. anything for na. Unleu. per·
a~lvt>ntnre. we are a graft into the laraeliti11h tree, we have no
r·ight to a (llaim in any del•artment of the Lurd'il teoobiup: aod
if we are grafted into th.s.t tree, we mnat partake of all ita vital.
ity, which ia found in God'a ooveuant to Abraham anti bie peovle.
If we refnll8 that vitality. we become &M the branch that
i11 dried anti brnken off. •
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. • Dwofutr the pMt ftfty y-. ..wnl eomplete aacl em.n.dve WOI'ka bave IIHa
wriU.ea pruviD(r 0t1r W..litlah o.ftp, NyODd 1111 reuouble doabt, and •verlli
papen are oow beiug publialuod In the lntei'Nt of this tho~a~tht ; 10 th8t thee w 1111
no- ffllr uy 01111 vlolatilll' thW ertlole of tile eon--. if be Ia MrMI&ly follow·
boc after tnJth aacl righteo-- ; notwithatalldiug thla, it Ia ••ll kuowa that It
Ia a diaboaor Ia the ey• of the Chri8tlaa world to be aa W..llte. Thue, In ..
oiiOII&JiterM IIMIIIIIIIr, tlley .... n~ tibit ..__.....
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