The Everlasting Righteousness [Paperback]

Horatius Bonar (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1993

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Horatius Bonar is best remembered for his hymns, but he was also a leading author and his "Everlasting Righteousness" remains one of the finest and most uplifting treatments of truths which have changed nations and centuries. Here is a classic treatise on justification by faith --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 211 pages
• Publisher: The Banner of Truth Trust (September 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0851516556
• ISBN-13: 978-0851516554
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,264,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful meditation on the atonement of Christ, February 11, 2000

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Daniel Beck "tadayoshi" (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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Rarely does profound theology find such eloquent expression as in this little book. Bonar reflects on the substitutionary atonement of Christ in a way that puts to shame the many "devotional" writers found today. The theology is precise and life changing, and beautiful as well. There is no sophistry here though. Just a man who loved true doctrine and had a gift with expression.

Check out the many hymns he has written as well. Some of them are found in his book "Longing for Heaven"

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book for Every 20th- & 21st-Century Christian to Read, October 18, 2000

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Christopher C. Alsruhe (Baltimore, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
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Here is a book that scripturally explains the saving work of God in Christ Jesus and cuts through the false gospel of "ask Jesus in your heart." One gets excited by reading such dynamic thoughts on salvation. This book and "Justification by Faith Alone" by Charles Hodge break through the unbiblical teachings concerning saving grace being propagated today.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An antidote to banal 21st century theologies, May 12, 2010

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An excellent treatment of our righteousness in Christ. Chapter 8 is worth the price all by itself.

"For the cross saves completely, or not at all. Our faith does not divide the work of salvation between itself and the cross. It is the acknowledgement that the cross alone saves, and it saves alone. Faith adds nothing to the cross nor to its healing virtue. It owns the fullness and the sufficiency and the suitableness of the work done there and bids the toiling spirit cease from its labours and enter into rest. Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done and to accept this completion without misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the "It is finished" of the sin-bearer and says "Amen!" Where faith begins, there labour ends--labour, I mean, for life and for pardon. Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up of all the former weary efforts."

And from chapter 2: "With a weak faith and a fearful heart, many a sinner stands before the altar. But it is not the strength of his faith, but the perfection of the sacrifice, that saves; and no feebleness of faith, no dimness of eye, no trembling of hand, can change the efficacy of our burnt-offering. The vigor of our faith can add nothing to it, nor can the poverty of it take anything from it. Faith, in all its degrees, still reads the inscription, 'The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin;' and if at times the eye is so dim that it cannot read these words, through blinding tears or bewildering mist, faith rests itself on the certain knowledge of the fact that the inscription is still there, or at least that the blood itself (of which these words remind us) remains, in all its power and suitableness, upon the altar unchanged and unaffected."