Andover Thes. Tem. Litrary

From the Author.
GOD'S TIMEPIECE

FOR

MAN'S ETERNITY.

ITS PURPOSE OF LOVE AND MERCY; ITS PLENARY
INFALLIBLE INSPIRATION; AND ITS PERSONAL
EXPERIMENT OF FORGIVENESS AND

ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST.

BY

REV. GEORGE B. CHEEVER, D.D.,

AUTHOR OF" LECTURES ON THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS"; "THE RIVER OF THE
WATER OF LIFE"; "A PILGRIM IN THE SHADOW OF MONT BLANC";
66 VOICES OF NATURE TO THE SOUL"; "VOYAGE TO THE CELESTIAL
COUNTRY"; "LECTURES ON COWPER"; "POWERS OF THE
WORLD TO COME"; "FAITH, DOUBT AND EVIDENCE,"
"LECTURES ON THE HIERARCHICAL DESPOTISM," ETC.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION,

BY REV. CEPHAS H. KENT, VERMONT.

NEW YORK:

A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON,

714 BROADWAY.

1888.

PREFACE.

From Alpha to Omega, THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK WRITTEN OF ME, is One and Eternal; perfect, infallible, indivisible, even as Christ is one and the same, yesterday, to-day, and forever. In its purpose of Love and Mercy, its absolute plenary inspiration, its all-sufficiency in Time, its ceaseless accumulation and progress of spiritual Light and Life through Eternity, it is "the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus." As God's infallible Word in Christ, it is man's only possible LAW OF LIBERTY; THE SPIRIT AND THE WORD; WHATSOEVER THE SPIRIT SAITH UNTO THE CHURCHES. Being God's Law in Christ, it is our Life and blessedness; the Book of God's ABSOLUTE PREPOSSESSION IN US FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. In itself are our appointed tests of its infallible unalterable inspiration and certainty, incapable of diminution or addition; the