Huntington closely and faithfully discriminated between taking the mere lamp of profession in the hand and the vital necessity, upon which he insisted, of possessing the oil of God’s grace in the heart if ever we are to enter heaven, Matthew 25:1-13. ‘This it was,’ wrote J.C. Philpot, ‘which especially made him obnoxious to the professing world as well as to the profane. You may take away almost anything from a man but his religion. To pronounce his faith a delusion, his hope a falsehood, and his love a lie; to sift his profession till nothing is left but presumption and hypocrisy; to withstand his false confidence, and to declare it to be worse than the faith of devils; to analyse his religion, beginning, middle, and end, as thoroughly and unreservedly as a chemist analyses a case of suspected poisoning, and declare the whole rotten, root and branch – can this be done without giving deadly offence? But this was the work that Huntington had to do.’
(From the ‘Foreword’ to an edition of Huntington’s ‘Kingdom Of Heaven Taken By Prayer’.)
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Am ordering a copy of this book, cuz w that great of an intro…! : )
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Good. Every Christian should read Huntington. He was a man taught and sent of God to preach the gospel to the comfort of others born and taught of the same Father, and to separate from them the mere professors of Christ’s name. Hated in his day by many envious men-pleasing preachers, he is mostly forgotten today by a Christendom almost totally devoid of the Spirit of life and the revelation of Jesus Christ, which likes to write him off as a ‘high-Calvinist’ and ‘antinomian’, and therefore a danger to the souls of ‘believers’, not knowing what they are saying or affirming. But let the infidels raise their straw men and then burn them down; but for the small remnant still alive today whose joy it is to happen upon Huntington’s writings they will be blessed and confirmed in the narrow way, the only way that leadeth unto life.
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