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THE

GOSPEL STANDARD.

VOL. XXV., 1859.

LONDON:

JOHN GADSBY, GEORGE YARD, BOUVERIE STREET.

1859.

INDEX TO THE SIGNATURES.

Abbott (W.), 80.

A. F. P., 305.

A. H., 148.

A Lover of the Truth, 83.
Boos, 23.

Broadbridge (G.), 50, 266.
Birch, 14, 37, 69, 299, 333.
Baker (A.), 77.

Boorne (T.), 211.
Bradford (John), 347.
Charnock, 111, 324.

Cobb (Christopher), 172, 272.
Dark (Stephen), 340.

Dorney, 26, 154, 176, 272, 324.
Editor, 5, 29, 61, 85, 88, 111, 121,
155, 164, 184, 185, 215, 216, 217,
250,280, 312, 348, 363,369, 370,
372.

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THE

GOSPEL STANDARD.

JANUARY, 1859.

MATT. v. 6; 2 TIM. I. 9; ROM. XI. 7; ACTS VIII. 87, 38; MATT. XXVIII. 19.

AN ADDRESS TO THE READERS OF THE "GOSPEL STANDARD.”

ONE of the greatest blessings which the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ can bestow upon any one of his elect family is, to let down into his soul the word of his grace, so as to make him spiritually and experimentally acquainted with the truth as it is in Jesus. Sunk as we are in the Adam fall, buried in the lowest depths of darkness and ignorance, without one ray of divine light to illuminate the gloom, and without one breath of heavenly life to guide our feet into the way of peace, how condescending in our most gracious Lord to send a quickening beam out of his own glorious fulness into our soul, to turn us from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God! Truth, his own truth, his pure, precious truth, is the means which he employs to effect this mighty change in a sinner's soul. "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth;" (James i. 18;) "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." (1 Pet. i. 23.) And as it is by the word of truth that he first begets the soul into spiritual life, so does he maintain by the same means the life that he originally thus communicated. We attach, perhaps, hardly sufficient importance to the exact language by which the truth of God has been made known to the sons of men; but the very words which Jesus spake were as much a part of the covenant as his most precious blood itself. How clearly and distinetly did the Lord declare this in the days of his flesh! "For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment what I should say and what I should speak;" (John xii. 49;) again, "The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself;" (John xiv. 10;) and again, in that solemn intercessory prayer which he offered up, when here below, as the great High Priest over the house of God, "I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me." (John xvii. 8.) God the Father gave unto the Son of his love these words of truth and righteousness when he anointed him with the Holy Ghost and with power, and thus constituted and qualified him to be his Messenger and Servant. These exact words he spake, as he himself declares, "Whatsoever I speak, therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak." (John xii. 50.)

Now the grand distinction between the living saint of God and the servant of Satan, whether dead in sin or dead in a profession, is,

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