CHAPTER L - THE>IE PI.OB t'BEME •ADE The Tempter's Chief Weapon 63 The Visible Universe 6 The First J udgment Scene ... 68 Chaos an Emblem of the Unxenewed The Working of the Sin-stricken Con- Soul ... 7 science 69 The Value of Light 13 The Searching Question 69 Light an Emblem of the Gospel 14 The Doom of Satan and the Hope of The Atmospheric Fi.rmamont 16 Man ... 70 Sea, Land, nnd Vegetation, Contrasted The Word of God in the Moral Chaos 70 and Compared ... 19 • First Fruits of the Promise 74 The Celestial Luminaries 23 Covering ... 76 The Fourth Day ..• 24 The Dispensation of Redemption 76 The Mystery of Life 27 The Fifth Day 28 CHAPTER IV. The Greatness of Man 32 33 The First Brothers 82 The Sixth Day The Creation of Man 33 Am I my Brother's Keeper I 84 Perfection 34 The Kingdom of God 85 Care for our Brethren 86 CHAPTER II. The Condemnation and Judgment of the First Murderer 86 Tho Two Sabbaths: the Divine and the The Progress of the Race ... 90 Human 37 The Kingdom of God contrasted with Rest and Light 38 the Kingdom of this World 92 The First Man '42 Revelation in History 92 Man the Living Soul 43 The Garden of Eden 47 CHAPTER V. Man's First Dwelling place ... 48 The Tree of Life and the Water of Life 49 The Antediluvian Saints 98 The First Marriage 63 Enwh 100 The True Life of Man 65 Walking with God 100 A Grent Exnmple anu a Great Reward 101 CHAPTER III. 61 CHAPTER VI. The First Sin The 'l'empter 62 "The Days that were Before the The Moral Chaos before the Moral Flood" 104 Restoration 62 The Work of Sin ... 106 • 2N ii INDEX.
'l'REME PI.GE THEME rAOJI The Demoralisation of the Race 106 The Tower of Babel 160 rroba.tion, Approbation, and Repro~: God's City or Man's City ::: ::: 169 tion ... ... ... . .. 107 The Cities of Men and the City of God 170 The Striving of the Spint 107 Vain Imaginings .. . 170 The Building of the .Ark 111 Babel and Zion .. . 170 The Obedience of Noah ·113 . From-Shem to Abram 172 Righteousness and Peace I'l!l • The Order of Grace 173 The Way of Safety 113 Divine Traditions ... . .. 173 The Migration of the Terachites 176 CHAPTER VII, Two Weddings 177 The Ark Entered ... . .. 115 God the Saviour Inviting Faith 116 CHAPTER XII. Realised Salvation .• , 117 The Chaldrean Emigrant ... 180 Was the Flood Universal 1 ... 119 The Preparations of Grace . .. .. , 181 The Deluge 121 The Voices of God at the Opening of The Believer's Safety 123 the World's Eras 181 Abraham Called .. , 182 CHAPTER VIII. Abraham Useful ... 182 llfount Ararat, or the Landing of the Sevenfold Promises .. • 182 Ark ... ... ... . .. 127 The Promised Land 184 Hoping and Waiting ... . .. 128 Revelations • ... •• • 185 0
The Returning of the Waters, or the The First Wanderer and th~ Second, ·~; Recall of Divine Judgments 128 Cain and Abram Compared and Con, God's Infinite Care 130 trasted 185 Grace and Providence ... 131 The Strength and Weaknes~-~f Abra~ 186 The Dispensations of Righteousn~~ Abraham Worshipping ... 186 and Love 131 Abraham's Altar ... 186 The Saint and the Saviour .. . 135 The Descent into Egypt ..• 190 Rest and Restoration .. . 137 The Church and the World ... 191 The Sanctification of the Earth 137 Famines ... 192 Abraham and Carnal Policy 192 CHAPTER IX. Abram and Israel ; a Parallel 192 New Al'rangements for a New Era 141 The New Life of Man on the Earth 142 CHAPTER XIII. The Covenant Renewed 145 The Magnanimity of Abi-am 194 The New N oachic Covenant Establisbed 146 The Separation. !Jiitween ,A:bram and Lot 196 The Bow in the Cloud 147 Abraham, the Peaceable Man 196 The Future Unveiled 151 The Ch~ice of Lot •• 197, 198 The Threefold Dilltribution of the Hu- Sodom and the Sodomites, or the Place· man Race 154 and the People ... 198 CHAPTER X. The Parting of the Friends .•. 198 ~e Etlmological Register ..• 161 Lot's Unwise Choice • . .... 199 Nimrod ... 163 Going to Sodom ... 199 Going towards Sodom· 199 The Cana.anites 163 Peleg, or the Division of the People... 168 Magnanimity Rewarded, or Divine Compensations ... 201 Nations ... 163 CHAP;rER XIV. CHAPTER XI. 166 The Capture of Lot, or Nemesis pursu• The Tower-Builders of Babel Order brought forth 168 ing Sin 201 169 The Kingdom of God in its Relatio11,to Unity of Language 169 the Contending Powers of this World 206 Ancient Brickmakers INDEX. iii
""KME J'AOE THDB r.t.Ol!l The Kinsman Deliveror, or Abram's The Last Days of Lot 262 Military Expedition 207 The Destmction of Sodom and Go- Abram's Expedition a Sermon for the morrah 263 Now Testament Chnrch 208 Viaited by KingP .• 210 CHAPTER XX. A King-Priest 212 Abraham in Cerar, or Two Royal Sin- Melchizedek BI~ssing Abraham 214 ners ~66 The Church Militant 215 Falsehood the Fruit of Unbelief 268 Abraham's Independent Spirit 216 Abraham and Abimelcch at Cerar 268 CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XXI. Under the Stars with God ••• 217 The Son of Promise, or a Young Child's Faith 218 Biography 270 What the Lord is to His People 219 Birth, Circumcision, and Weaning of Faith and Righteousness 219 Isaac ... Zil Taken into Covenant 222 The Separation of the Bondwoman's The Strength and Weakness of Faith 224 Son from the Promised Seed 271 The Silent Worshipper 224 The Expulsion of Ishmael ... 273 Abraham's Watch nnd Vision 224 Hagar and Ishmael, or the Fortunes of the Outcasts 27 6 CHAPTER XVI. Hagar, a Weary Outcast 276 Crooked Ways, or Marrying with Hagar 226 God's Appearance to Hagar 276 Hngar 227 Ha,,"lll' in the Wilderness 277 'l'he Mnid, the Mistress, and the Master 227 God's Care for Ishmael 277 The Cnpture of the Runaway, or Hagnr Abimelech and Abraham, or Ancient and the Angel of the Lord 229 Covennnters 281 Wells in the Wilderness 231 A Covennnt between tho Pntrinrch e.nd Glimpses of the Godhead ... 231 the Philistine King 282 God Pico.ding with Wanderers 231 CHAPTER X."'Hl CHAPTER XVII. Mount Moriah, or the Mount of Sncri• The Covenant Renewed 234 fice 285 God's Cllll to Believers 235 Abraham's Perfect Faith 286 The True Lifo of Faith set forth 236 The Lamb of God ... 287 The Covcnnnt Completed ... •. 238 The Great Trial and tho Great Revela- tion 288 CHAPTER XVIII. Good N owe from a .Far Country 290 Noontide at Mnmre, or Angels' Visits 242 The Theophany at Mamro ... 244 CHAPTER XXIII. Sodom's Doom Revealed 246 The Death nnd Burial of Sarah 294, 295 Abrahnm's Intercession for Sodom 247 Lessons from the Sepulchre ... 295 God's Rule in the Family ... 248 Abrahnm and Family Training 248 CHAPTER XXIV. Abrnham's Intercession 260 A Bride for tho Hcir.-1. Abraham and Eliczer, or the Mission for tho Bride 298 CHAPTER XIX. Tho Unfolding of tho Divina Purpose 299 Warning Lights in Sodom ... 263 No Turning Back... 299 The Judgment of Firo 267 A Bride for tho Hoir.-2. Eliezor 11.nd The Righteousness of God Revealed ... 269 Rebekah, or the Finding of the Bride 303 The Dnnger of Falling Back 269 Eliczor, or a Wifo-Seckor 304 Iv INDEX.