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"50 FINAL APPEAL
saved people at different times, in their peculiar cap*'
cities, were dependent themselves upon God, and only
instruments in his hands. It is not possible for God)
who could raise, as the Editor confesses, personages to
save men, by their miraculous strength, from the grasp
of their enemies, to raise one to save mankind frofl1
sin through his divine instructions ? If not, how shoul
we reconcile such disavowal of the power of God to
the following assertion of the evangelist Matthew
that the people "glorified God, who had given sud'
power to men"? (ix. 8). And if Jesus was not entitle*
to the appellation of a saviour from the saving pow
of his divine instructions, in what sense should *'e
understand those declarations of Jesus himself, to W
found even in a single Gospel John v. 24, vi. 63*
xv. 3 ?
To his question, "When, previously to Christ5
coming, did the Egyptians cry to Jehovah for deliverance
and when, previously, was Israel the third with Egypt an<*
the Assyrians," my answer must be in the negative; tha*
is, neither previous to Christ's coming did the Egyptian5
cry to Jehovah and join the Assyrians and Israel, a blc$s'
ing in the midst of the land, nor have they subsequently
to the coming of Jesus, up to this day, cried to the Go<*
of Israel, or joined Israel and the Assyrians in asking *
divine blessing.
The Editor says, (page 537, ) that "in ch. xxxv. t&*
blessings of Christ's kingdom are declared in the nio5'
glowing language." I do not dispute it in the least. *
verse 10 ("the ransomed of the Lord shall return," &c'^
have any allusion to Jesus, it must have reference to
implicit obedience to the will of Jehovah, even to lH
saved people at different times, in their peculiar cap*'
cities, were dependent themselves upon God, and only
instruments in his hands. It is not possible for God)
who could raise, as the Editor confesses, personages to
save men, by their miraculous strength, from the grasp
of their enemies, to raise one to save mankind frofl1
sin through his divine instructions ? If not, how shoul
we reconcile such disavowal of the power of God to
the following assertion of the evangelist Matthew
that the people "glorified God, who had given sud'
power to men"? (ix. 8). And if Jesus was not entitle*
to the appellation of a saviour from the saving pow
of his divine instructions, in what sense should *'e
understand those declarations of Jesus himself, to W
found even in a single Gospel John v. 24, vi. 63*
xv. 3 ?
To his question, "When, previously to Christ5
coming, did the Egyptians cry to Jehovah for deliverance
and when, previously, was Israel the third with Egypt an<*
the Assyrians," my answer must be in the negative; tha*
is, neither previous to Christ's coming did the Egyptian5
cry to Jehovah and join the Assyrians and Israel, a blc$s'
ing in the midst of the land, nor have they subsequently
to the coming of Jesus, up to this day, cried to the Go<*
of Israel, or joined Israel and the Assyrians in asking *
divine blessing.
The Editor says, (page 537, ) that "in ch. xxxv. t&*
blessings of Christ's kingdom are declared in the nio5'
glowing language." I do not dispute it in the least. *
verse 10 ("the ransomed of the Lord shall return," &c'^
have any allusion to Jesus, it must have reference to
implicit obedience to the will of Jehovah, even to lH