A Funeral Discourse

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Excerpt from A Funeral Discourse: Delivered on Sunday Morning, April 10, 1859, in the Independent or Congregational (Circular) Church, of Charleston, on the Death of the Rev. Reuben Post, D. D., Late Pastor of That ChurchThe idea that God's ancient people were always to continue His peculiar people to the Virtual exclusion of all other nations, held possession of the Jewish mind as late as the days of our Lord's ministry and that of the Apostles, with a pertinacity which is almost sublime. It was only by the most cogent demonstrations, repeated time after time, the Apos tles and brethren would allow themselves to be con vinced that under the new dispensation the Gentiles were to be admitted as fellow-heirs with the Jews of the grace of a commonl'god and Saviour. An ex press revelation must needs be made to the Apostle. Peter, notwithstanding all his ardor of temperament, before he would consent to preach Christ to Corne lius and his household, waiting and begging to know the way of salvation. And when he had obeyed the heavenly vision and had witnessed the joyful effects of the Gospel dispensed from his lips, he found it necessary to defend the proceeding before the assem: bled Church at Jerusalem, Strange spectacle, as it seems to us, that of an Apostle, the terms of whosecommission bade him go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, standing before his brethren, on whom the same charge had been laid, to apologize for the liberty he had taken of speaking of the great salvation to a score or less of those who constituted nineteen-twentieths of that world, to every part and kindred of which he and they had alike been commanded to carry its tidings! Such is the effect of long nurtured prejudices upon the minds even of men otherwise enlightened and rightly disposed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.