Author : Hugh Martin
Release : 2017-11-18
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 149/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Prophet Jonah by : Hugh Martin

Download or read book The Prophet Jonah written by Hugh Martin. This book was released on 2017-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Prophet Jonah: His Character and Mission to Nineveh But, claiming the favour of Abraham's God, not at all on the free, gracious, and blessed terms - most comforting, but most humbling also - humbling, yet sweetly humbling - on which Abraham was content to rest his claim; resting theirs, not like their father Abraham, on the pure and simple grace of God, but on their own formal position, and fancied pre-eminence, they inevitably fell into Views of the state and destiny of the Gentile world utterly at variance with the character of God as the Moral Governor of mankind, and fitted exceedingly to nurse into ia creasing vigour their own proud, cold, stern, and malignant spirit of ecclesiastical self-righteousness and bigotry, and national intolerance and pride. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.