Premillennial Essays of the Prophetic Conference; Second Coming of Christ with an Appendix of Critical Testimonies

Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... THE REGENERATION. BY REV. CHAS. K. IMBRIE, D.D., OF JERSEY CITY. I Am to speak of "The Regeneration " or The Restitution of all things" foretold in the Scripture. It is a great subject; weighty and most interesting. It comprehends the grand result to which all else is but preliminary, the outcome of the promise made in Eden, that the ruin caused by Satan and sin should be fully repaired. It is also a very difficult subject. To prove clearly from God's word a single step in the process toward its accomplishment, may be done with comparative ease. To show conclusively from the Scripture that the personal and visible coming of the Lord is plainly to precede and introduce the Millennial reign and "the Regeneration " of all things, is a most important step and opens indeed the door. But behind that door there yet remains the glory beyond--the finished purpose of God in redemption, so far as it is portrayed in the Scripture. And to exhibit this finished redemption, as it shines in the bright lustre of "the world to come whereof we are to speak," and when all is, at last, made new, needs painstaking indeed. One must speak with carefulness and modesty. Above all does it need this care, where long cherished prejudgments are to be met and overcome, and men are, if possible, to be brought back from an interpretation which is supposed to exalt this glory by substituting a dim, undefined, though professedly spiritual, meaning for the Scripture portrait of this scene, to the acceptance of the plain and natural sense of God's own words. The anticipation of some sort of blissful change to come upon this sad and sinful earth after its long continued storms and sorrows is, in one form or another, very general. Even those who despise God's word and rely on...