Bible Treasury, Volume 2, 2nd. Edition, June.
[02 1859 288] The Editor quite agrees with H. B. that, without looking for signs of the approaching rapture of the saints to meet the Lord in the air, the earthly ground is being rapidly taken for the closing conflicts. Even the newspapers ring with men's projects, which, we know, will end in a revived empire of the West and a vast Eastern power, (the Beast and Gog,) both of which are destined to meet their judgement successively from the hand of the Lord, and that in the Holy Land. May our loins be girded about and our lights burning!
Bible Treasury, Volume 2, 2nd Edition, October 1859.
(1st. edition, October [02 1859 351])
[02 1859 350]
To the Editor of the Bible Treasury.
Sir,
If we walk in the light, as God is in the light, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin. Walking in the light, as God, etc., is not walking as perfectly as God is perfect, as must be manifest; but if the darkness is past, Judaism, and all its power to evil, is past, and the true light now shineth. God is light, and if a man walks in his standing in Christ, by faith, he is in the light, as God is in the light, and the blood of Jesus Christ takes its full cleansing power. I would compare this with the view in "Fragments gathered up," in your May * Number. It does not apply to failures, but to standing, to fellowship, and advance in the divine life. I could now add much of the latter part of the second paragraph, "The verse does not say, has cleansed," etc. The use of the present tense is in perfect keeping with the mind of the Spirit, as manifested in this Apostle. Then follows the rejection of the claims of being free from sin practically or actually.
(*Refers to the 1st edition. The corresponding entry in the 2nd edition, is June [02:288])