Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Vol. 1: For Family and Private Use, With the Text Complete, St. JohnThe expectations of Bengel, the German commentator, appear likely to be fulfilled with curious accuracy in the present day. He said, in the year A. D. 1740, -though Socinianism and Popery at present appear mutually aloof, they will in process of time form a mighty con¿uence, that will burst all bounds, and bring everything to a crisis. We may expect it in the following way. The residue of heavenly in¿uence on the professing Church, as a body, will have utterly evaporated, its holy things having been already more and more prostituted to the spirit of this world. The Holy Spirit being thus withdrawn from the camp at large, the world Will deem its own victory and triumph secured. Now, therefore, a spirit of liberal Latitudinarianism will prevail everywhere, a notion that every one may be right in his own way of thinking, and consequently that all is well with the J ew, the Turk, and the Pagan. Ideas of this kind will wonderfully prepare men for embracing the false prophet. (life of Bengel, Walker's edition, page How painfully correct these prognostioations, made 125 years ago, have proved, any one who observes the state of religious feeling in England must know only too well!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.