“I regard the principle here set forth as forming the very basis of the Gospel, proclaiming as it does God’s eternal and unchanging Purpose for man—to raise him by education into fellowship with Himself — to make him a partaker in His own righteousness and His own blessedness.”
The essay Thomas Erskine titled “Salvation” was written in 1816 but not published until 1825 when it appeared as the Introductory Essay to Letters of the Samuel Rutherford: Late Professor of Divinity at St. Andrews.
The Saints’ Everlasting Rest (1650) is a renown Puritan devotional classic. Thomas Erskine wrote the introductory essay for the 1824 edition published as part of The Select Chrisian Authors series.
“The divine and human natures were united in the person of Christ—he became our representative—he suffered the sentence which had been pronounced against us—Jehovah was well pleased for his righteousness sake, for thus the law was magnified and made honorable.”
“True and False Religion” (1874) was originally published in 1830 as “An Introductory Essay” for the book Extracts of Letters to a Christian Friend by a Lady.
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