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An
Exposition of the Epistle of 1 John
by Samuel Eyles Pierce
One will not read very far into any of the writings of Samuel Eyles
Pierce before discovering what an exalted view of the Lord Jesus Christ
he had. "You will find it a blessed part of your spiritual life to study
Christ," he wrote years earlier in a letter to a good friend, adding,
"You will never trust in Christ any farther than you know Him; therefore
the knowledge of Him is the principal thing in Christianity." Pierce
restates this essential maxim in his "Prefatory Address" to the
following Exposition of First John, where he tells us that "The true knowledge
of Christ, is the one only key, whereby all the treasures contained in
this Epistle can be opened: for this contains a spiritual treatise on
communion with Christ, and with the Father in Him; through the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us."
The works of Samuel Pierce have long been held in high esteem by those
who love the doctrine of sovereign grace, and C. H. Spurgeon noted that
this work on First John was "full of spiritual power and unction," for
Pierce, he wrote, "loved the deep things of God, and wrote upon them in
a gracious manner." (Commenting and Commentaries, page 196).
Dr. Robert Hawker esteemed his contemporary Samuel Pierce as a "man of
god," and greatly valued his various productions. "Mr. Pierce’s
writings," he wrote, "appear to me eminently distinguished, as being
directed to set forth the Lord Jesus in his essential, personal,
relative, and mediatorial glories, and can need no other commendation
than their own excellencies."
The 5th volume in our Newport Commentary Series, is a facsimile of Mr.
C. H. Spurgeon’s personal copy from the Spurgeon Library now at Midwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. Cloth. Two volumes in one. 880
pages, with portrait of Samuel E. Pierce.
$32 plus shipping.

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