The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Proverbs 15:3
Truth to be Believed
God
That the God revealed to Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, by angelic visitation and
vision,1 and to Moses at the flaming
bush (unconsumed), and at Sinai,2 and
who spoke through the prophets who arose in
Israel,3 is the supreme self-existent
Deity,4 who is ONE FATHER,5
and hath, out of His own underived energy, created
heaven and earth, and all that in them
is;6 that He sustains all things by His
power, which is infinite;7 guides all
things by His wisdom, which is perfect,8
and knows all things by His spirit, which is
omnipresent;9 that He dwells somewhere
in the vast expanse around us in Unapproachable
Light,10 and is the only Being in the
universe possessed of inherent deathlessness; whom
no man hath seen or can see.11
That God created Adam, the
progenitor the human race, out of the dust of the
ground, as a living soul, or natural body of life;
"very good" in kind and condition,1 and
placed him under a law through which the
continuance of life was contingent on
obedience.2
That Adam broke the
law, and was adjudged unworthy of immortality, and
sentenced to return to the ground from whence he
was taken1 - a sentence carried into
execution by the implantation of a physical law of
decay, which works out dissolution and
death,2 and while a man is yet alive,
gives him, where it is left to its uncontrolled
operation, a tendency in the direction of
sin.3 This is the law of sin in the
members, spoken of by Paul, which the new law
established by the truth brings into
subjection.4 In Adam's sentence, all
mankind are involved, in consequence of their being
physically derived from his physically-affected and
unclean being.5
That God, in His
kindness, conceived a plan of restoration, which,
without setting aside His just and necessary law of
sin and death, should ultimately rescue the race
from destruction, and people the earth with sinless
immortals.1
That He
inaugurated this plan by making certain promises to
Adam,1 Abraham,2 and
David,3 which were afterwards elaborated
in greater detail through the prophets.4
That these promises had
reference to a second (or last) Adam,1
to be raised up in the condemned line of Abraham
and David,2 who should purchase life by
perfect obedience,3 and by dying,
abrogate the law of condemnation for those who were
under condemnation,4 and, therefore, for
himself,5 who was made in all points
like them;6 that having thus died unto
sin once,7 he should afterwards be
raised to immortality;8 in which (death
having no more dominion over him) he should be
permitted to extend a participation in his life and
inheritance9 to all who should believe
and obey him;10 and that he should
afterwards become the head and ruler of the whole
world.11