The Crimson Path: The Foreshadows and Fulfillment of the Lamb of God!
(Have you ever wondered why John the Baptist introduced Je...)
Have you ever wondered why John the Baptist introduced Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God? Why not introduce Him as the promised heir to the throne of King David? Why is a 'crimson path' essential for the plan of redemption? This book will answer these questions and take the reader on a journey through the ages. This journey will reveal the 'foreshadows' that foretell the redemptive mission of the 'Lamb of God'. In this exposition, the foreshadows recorded in the Old Testament will be identified and the resemblance of each foreshadow will be correlated with the plan of fulfillment recorded in the New Testament.
(So few of us understand the Holy Spirit. As part of the s...)
So few of us understand the Holy Spirit. As part of the sacred Triune Godhead, what purpose does He play in our lives? In The Holy Spirit: Our Helper, ordained minister Robert D. Finley opens our minds and hearts to the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Whether our lives are full of joy and purpose or feel empty and defeated, learning the truth about the universal power of the Holy Spirit will bring us greater hope and comfort. Page after page, the author reveals the Holy Spirit, describes the gifts He bestows upon all Christians, identifies sins committed against Him, and how He has been portrayed through the centuries and the role He plays in those lives that receive Him. Whether the author is quoting the Bible, repeating lore or drawing upon personal insights, Finley offers a thoughtful, compelling, and heart-filling presentation that will sweep away confusion and illustrate in illuminating fashion how knowing the Holy Spirit will bring joy and meaning into all of our lives.
Robert Finley was an American Presbyterian clergyman, educator, organizer of the American Colonization Society.
Background
Robert Finley was born in Princeton, New Jersey. His father, James, was a yarn merchant of Glasgow. With his wife, whose maiden name was Angres, he came to Princeton at the suggestion of his Old-Country friend, John Witherspoon, then president of the College of New Jersey. Here he engaged in weaving, and during the Revolution was a clothier to American troops.
Education
Robert, a scholarly, precocious youth, entered the College of New Jersey when he was eleven, graduating in 1787.
Career
He then engaged in teaching, first in the grammar school at Princeton, later in an academy at Allentown, New Jersey, and afterward in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1792, having decided to enter the ministry, he returned to Princeton, studied theology under Dr. Witherspoon, and also acted as tutor in the college.
He was licensed to preach September 16, 1794, and in April of the following year was called to the church at Basking Ridge, where he was ordained June 16, 1795. For almost twenty-two years he served the church at Basking Ridge with great devotion and success, and in connection with his pastoral work conducted a school for boys which came to have the reputation of being one of the best in the country.
For eleven years (1807 - 17) he was also a trustee of the College of New Jersey. In association with Rev. George S. Woodhull of Cranbury, New Jersey, he was responsible for the plan of Biblical instruction for the young by means of regular class work which was recommended to the churches by the General Assembly of May 1816.
Not very optimistic but determined, he went to Washington about the first of December 1816, and published a pamphlet Thoughts on the Colonisation of Free Blacks, which attracted much attention. He called on President Madison, Henry Clay, and other prominent persons who gave him encouragement.
Morgan put forth a rejoinder, and in 1748 Finley replied with A Vindication of the Charitable Plea for the Speechless. In 1743 also he published Satan Stripp’d of His Angelic Robe the Substance of Several Sermons Preach’d . . January 1742-3, Shewing the Strength, Nature, and Symptoms of Delusion, with an Application to the Moravians; and Clear Light Put Out in Obscure Darkness: Being an Examination and Refutation of Mr. Thompson s Sermon, Entitled The Doctrine of Convictions Set in a Clear Light.
In August of this same contentious year, having received a call to Milford, Connecticut, he was sent thither by his presbytery with permission “to preach for other places thereabouts, when Providence may open a door for him. ” Invited to preach to the Second Society, New Haven, a “Separatist” congregation without legal standing, he was arrested while on his way to the meeting, and later expelled from the colony as a vagrant.
In June 1744 he became pastor of the church in Nottingham, Pennsylvania, often referred to as in Maryland since it was on the boundary line. Here he remained seventeen years, his reputation for ability and scholarship steadily increasing. In connection with his pastoral work, he conducted a school which became widely known, in which were trained such men as Benjamin and Jacob Rush, Ebenezer Hazard, and Colonel John Bayard.
Among his published sermons not already mentioned are The Approved Ministers of God, ordination sermon of John Rodgers, March 16, 1749; The Curse of Meros, or, The Danger of Neutrality in the Cause of God, and Our Country (1757), preached during the French and Indian War, arraigning pacificism, and displaying the Scotch-Irish attitude in Pennsylvania as contrasted with the Quakers. The Disinterested and Devout Christian, on the death of President Davies, preached May 28, 1761; and The Successfid Minister of Christ, Distinguished in Glory, on the death of Gilbert Tenncnt, preached Sept. 2, 1764.
His death occurred in Philadelphia where he had gone for treatment, and he was buried in the Second Presbyterian Church there by the side of Gilbert Tennent, both bodies being later removed to the cemetery of that church.
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Religion
In 1743 in Cape May he had a public disputation of two days’ duration with Rev. Abel Morgan on the subject of baptism, and in 1746 he published A Charitable Plea for the Speechless; or, The Right of Believers’ Infants to Baptism Vindicated.
Views
His interest in the welfare of the colored race led him in 1816 to be the prime mover in the organization of the American Colonization Society. The idea of colonization was by no means new and various influences were working toward the result that Finley achieved, but it fell to his lot to be the agency which finally effected it.
Membership
He was a trustee of the College of New Jersey.
Personality
A tradition that his scholars were systematically birched every Monday morning on general principles of discipline is probably unreliable, for whatever the spirit displayed in his controversial utterances, he was esteemed for his kindness and courtesy. Pupils of his describe him as “a man of small stature and of a round and ruddy countenance”: remarkable “for sweetness of temper and politeness of behaviour. ”
Connections
In May 1798 he married Esther Caldwell, daughter of the “soldier-parson, ” Rev. James Caldwell.