The Everlasting Righteousness: Introduction and Annotations by Carroll F. Burcham

by Horatius Bonar

Book Overview

At the cross the everlasting righteousness is found; human, yet divine: provided for man, and presented to him by God, for relief of conscience and justification of life. On the one word, "It is finished" as on a heavenly resting-place, weary souls sat down and were refreshed. The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done. Millions of bruised consciences there found healing and peace. (Dr. Bonar wrote a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149971775X
• ISBN13: 9781499717754
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An antidote to banal 21st century theologies

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."

A Book for Every 20th- & 21st-Century Christian to Read

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.

Beautiful meditation on the atonement of Christ

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"