J. C. Ryle

Living or Dead? (eBook, ePUB)

A Series of Home Truths

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Dead" is a strong word, but it is not my own coining and invention. I did not choose it. The Holy Ghost told Paul to write it down about the Ephesians,-"You hath he quickened who were dead." (Eph. 2:1.) The Lord Jesus Christ made use of it in the parable of the prodigal son,-"This my son was dead, and is alive again." (Luke 15:24, 32.) You will read it also in the Epistle to the Corinthians,-"One died for all, then were all dead." (2 Cor. 5:14.) Shall a mortal man be wise above that which is written? Must I not take heed to speak that which I find in the Bible, and neither less nor more?

"Dead" is an awful idea, and one that man is most unwilling to receive. He does not like to allow the whole extent of his soul's disease. He shuts his eyes to the real amount of his danger. Many a one will allow me to say that naturally most people "are not quite what they ought to be,-they are thoughtless,-they are unsteady,-they are gay,-they are wild,-they are not serious enough." But dead? Oh! no! I must not mention it. It is going too far to say that. The idea is a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence.

My dear Reader, what we like in religion is of very little consequence. The only question is-What is written? What saith the Lord? God's thoughts are not man's thoughts, and God's words are not man's words. God says of every living person, who is not a decided Christian,-be he high or low, rich or poor, old or young,-he is dead.

In this, as in everything else, God's words are right. Nothing could be said more correct, nothing more accurate, nothing more faithful, nothing more true. Stay a little, and let me reason this out with you. Come and see.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CrossReach Publications
• Seitenzahl: 257
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 6610000150939
• Artikelnr.: 60660684

Autorenporträt

John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) graduated from Eton and Oxford and then pursued a career in politics, but due to lack of funds, he entered the clergy of the Church of England. He was a contemporary of Spurgeon, Moody, Mueller, and Taylor and read the great theologians like Wesley, Bunyan, Knox, Calvin, and Luther. These all influenced Ryle's understanding and theology. Ryle began his writing career with a tract following the Great Yarmouth suspension bridge tragedy, where more than a hundred people drowned. He gained a reputation for straightforward preaching and evangelism. He travelled, preached, and wrote more than 300 pamphlets, tracts, and books, including Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Principles for Churchmen, and Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century. Ryle used the royalties from his writing to pay his father's debts, but he also felt indebted to that ruin for changing the direction of his life. He was recommended by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to be Bishop of Liverpool where he ended his career in 1900.