DEDICATION. THIS HIS little Book is, in all humility, dedicated to the service of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, the great Mediatorial King (Psalm viii. 5, 6, xxi. 1-7), Who loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the WORD; that He might present it to HIMSELF a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish (Eph. v. 25-27). Hallelujah. 'He loved me, and gave HIMSELF for me.' AMARIAH. IF INTRODUCTION. For, F ever there was a time for the Church earnestly to contend for the faith, which was once delivered to the saints, it is certainly the present remarkable time in which we now live. while the Bridegroom tarries, Satan is mustering all his hosts to secure a guilty silence in the Church of Christ, at the very moment Babylon is staggering under the mortal wrath of the SEVENTH vial, before the millennial dawn begins (Rev. viii. 1). Oh, it will be against our reward in the presence of an assembled Universe, if we, through our unwatchfulness, suffer the Arch-enemy guilefully to deceive us, to treat the Holy Bible as an antiquated Book, when he himself, to our certain knowledge, trembles at the momentous character of its contents as being infallibly true. And if the Serpent beguiled me and I did eat,' could not excuse Eve for her guilty conduct, when she stood self-con |