kindled his eloquence was that which flows from Christ."
[BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.]
"This volume will be a welcome gift to many an intelligent and
devout mind. There are few of our modern questions, theological or
ecclesiastical, that do not come up for discussion in the course
of these Epistles to the Christians at Corinth."
[MORNING HERALD.]
"No one can read these lectures without being charmed by their
singular freshness and originality of thought, their earnest,
simple eloquence, and their manly piety. There is no mawkish
sentiment, no lukewarm, semi-religious twaddle, smacking of the
_Record_; no proclamation of party views or party opinions, but a
broad, healthy, living, and fervent exposition of one of the most
difficult books in the Bible. Every page is full of personal
earnestness and depth of feeling; but every page is also free from
the slightest trace of vanity and egotism. The words come home to
the reader's heart as the utterance of a sincere man who felt
every sentence which flowed from his lips."
[PRESS.]
"One of the most marked features of these lectures is the deep
feeling which the preacher had of the emptiness and hollowness of
the conventional religionism of the day. The clap-trap of popular
ministers, the pride and uncharitableness of exclusive
Evangelicalism, the pomp and pretension of ritualism and priestly
affectation--the miserable Pharisaism which is lurking underneath
them all--form the subject of many strikingly true and often
cutting remarks. He has no patience with the unrealities of
sectarian purism and pedantic orthodoxy. His constant cry, the
constant struggle of his soul is for reality. Hence while his
views of objective truth are at times deficient, or, at least,
very imperfectly stated, he leaves a deep impress of subjective
religion upon the mind, by a style of teaching which, far from
uninstructive, is yet more eminently suggestive."
[THE SPECTATOR.]
"The _Notes on Genesis_--sketches more or less full of lectures on
Genesis, delivered by Mr. Robertson--will be welcomed by the many
who have read, with a profound interest, those writings of his
which have already been given to the world.... Few will be able to
read this volume without having brought before them certain
passages out of their own lives, which they will be
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