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The faith once delivered to the saints by J.N. Darby / Publisher: Christian Reading Room / Reprinted 1985 by Whitstable Litho Ltd., Whitstable, Kent
These papers had a distinctive place in connection with the revival of over a century ago, of the truth relating to the assembly of God, and they are reissued so as to be accessible to those who may not previously have had opportunity to read them.
They bring out clearly from scripture the principals on which Christians can walk together consistently with the truth, in a day when the truth is almost universally departed from. The subjects treated are of the utmost importance, and they claim serious and prayerful consideration on the part of all saints.
IT IS A GREAT thing for us, beloved friends, in all our path to know where we are, and then to know the mind of God, not only as to where we are, but as to our place in the path in which we find ourselves.
Not only has God visited us in grace, but we have to take into our minds what the actual present result of that grace is, so that we hold fast the great principles under which God has set us as Christians; and at the same time be able to apply those principles to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. These circumstances may vary according to our position, but the principles never vary. Their application to the path of faith may vary and does. I mean such a thing as this: in Hezekiah's time they were told "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength," and the Assyrian should not even cast a bank before Jerusalem. They were to stay perfectly calm and firm; and the host of Assyria was destroyed. But when a certain time of judgment was come, in Jeremiah's time, then he that went out of the city to the Chaldeans, their enemies, should save himself.
They were still God's people as much as before, though He was saying for the time in judgment-"not my people," and that made the difference. It was not that God's mind was altered or His relationship to His people changed -that never will be. Yet the conduct of the people was to be exactly the opposite. Under Hezekiah they were protected; under Zedekiah they were to bow to the judgment.
