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without Christ, being aliens from the common wealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world." Eph. ii. 12. "This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the |
ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedi-diness.—For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret." Eph. iv. 17-19; v. 12. "Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the gentiles which know not god." 1 Thess. iv. 5. |
What an exact description have we here of many of the Heathen nations of the present day, except it be that, if possible, some of them exceed in ignorance those referred to by the Apostle!
EXTRACT V.
Christ the Saviour of all who believe.
"But what is this Jesus Christ? He came to be a Saviour to that nation, [the Jews.] He came to gather up, and look up, the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But as he was a Saviour in the outward sense; so he was an outward shadow of good things to come; and so the work of the man Jesus Christ was a figure.'—'What was it that was a Saviour? Not that which was outward; it was not flesh and blood: for flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven.—It was that life that was in him,[1] and which lighteth every man, and consequently every woman, that cometh into the world.'" pp. 68, 69.
- ↑ What was it that was a Saviour? Not that which was outward," &c.—See under Ser. II. Ex. 1.
