The Royal Rights of the Lord Jesus

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (60) THE DISPENSATION OF GRACE. the Word Was Made Flesh, And Dwelt Among us ... FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH. . . . THE LAW WAS GIVEN BY MOSES; GRACE AND TRUTH CAME BY JESUS CHRIST.? John i. 14, 17. the Law Entered That The Offence Might Abound; But Where Sin Abounded Grace Did Much More Abound; That As Sin Hath Reigned Unto Death, Even So Might Grack Reign Through Righteousness Unto Eternal Life By JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.?Rom. V. 20, 21. FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES; IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD; NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST.?Eph. ii. 8, 9. Grace is kindness, favour, benignity, free gift, undeserved blessing. Dispensation is the economy or arrangement during whose continuance God deals with His creatures in any given way. Its duration is fixed by Him who does all things according to the counsel of His own will. The dispensation of law began with Sinai in the wilderness, and ended with Calvary when the Lord was crucified. The dispensation of grace began when the Gospel was sent to the Gentiles, and will end when the Church is removed from the world. Then will begin the dispensation of judgment, or righteousness, when the Lord in righteousness will judge the earth. More strictly still, the dispensation of grace began at the day of Pentecost, and will close at the second coming of Christ. This is the age or world in which it is our privilege to live; and when the next age, or world to come, shall begin, we, if we avail ourselves of the grace that now reigns, shall then reach a higher, better, and more perfect state of being than can be reached in the flesh. The dispensation of grace has lasted already nearly nineteen centuries, a very long period in the estimation of beings so short-lived as we are, Lut God's...