Author : Benjamin Wills Newton
Release : 2013-09
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Download or read book Works of Benjamin Wills Newton written by Benjamin Wills Newton. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES ON ISAIAH VI. Verse 1. In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filling the temple. I saw the Lord seated on a throne. Compare Rev. iv.. " Behold there was a throne set in heaven, and on the throne One seated." Heaven, not earth, was the place where John beheld the Divine glory; for the Temple of Israel, where Isaiah saw it, had been left desolate. " Behold, your House is left unto you desolate." The glory once present in the earth had been withdrawn and was hidden in the heavens, as it still is, though in due season to return. See Ezekiel xliii. 2. The vision granted to John was far fuller than that seen by Isaiah; for Isaiah lived before the work of redemption had been wrought out, and therefore the time was not come for the fulness of its results to be declared. Consequently, around the Throne, as seen by Isaiah, were no symbolic Cherubim, no enthroned crowned Elders, symbolizing the place soon to be occupied by the redeemed in glory. The holiness of the God of Israel in contrast with the uncleanness of those who professed to be His people, was the thought intended to be pressed home on the heart of Isaiah; and he trembled. Yet his terror was but for a moment. Grace caused him to apprehend his relation to the Throne in peace through the power of atoning sacrifice, and John himself, notwithstanding his far greater light and knowledge, had no better title than Isaiah to say that his iniquity was " gone, and his sin atoned for." Christ was "the Lamb foreordained," and the same love that afterwards enfolded John enfolded Isaiah, though the time was not yet come to explain and develop all its fulness. There was an essential similarity between these two honoured...