Excerpt from An Oration on Messiah's Kingdom, and Descant on Time and Immortality: With a Variety of Poetry on Moral and Religious Subjects; Volume for 1875 Man, 1n his dread dilemma, cursed of his God, and driven from the garden by the avenging sword guarding the forbidden tree, becomes a sad vagrant in his ruined state, sees no star to illume his darkness, no aid to cheer his fallen soul. The curse of a broken law remains upon him; he is covered with wounds and bruises, and the fires of Mount Sinai make his soul to quake with fear. He looks back, and his load of guilt over shadows him; before him is death temporal and eternal, and no created arm can save him from the fall., He has lost his Eden, the favor of his Lord, and must swell the sad dirge of his temporal and eternal pain. 0 God Is this man's doom by heaven's divine decree? But, 10 I hear the ministration of the angel band. The morning stars begin their song of deliverance, and bring hope to man. The sapient conclave of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, have found a scheme for a lost world's redemption, and the sweet harbingers of heaven begin to proclaim their anthems of deliverance from the t0ps of the holy mountains: The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head; Jehovah shall be clothed incarnate God shall be manifest m the flesh, seen of angels, believed on by the world, and re-ascend into glory; shall tread the wine-press alone, dip his vesture in his own blood, be buffeted in the streets of the Jews, and bear the cross up Mount Calvary. And all this for who? For the vile offender, the miscreant against God's law, for all Adam's lost sons and daughters. 'wonder, O heavens And be astonished, O earth At this boundless love of God to man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
