The Gospel in Genesis

Horatius Bonar (1808 – 1889) was a Scottish pastor, poet, and devotional writer.

This book contains the following meditations on Genesis:

1. The Old and New Creation (Gen 1)
2. The Link Between Being and Non-Being (Gen 1:3)
3. A Happy World (Gen 2)
4. The Sin, the Sinner, and the Sentence (Gen 3)
5. Man’s Fig-Leaves (Gen 3:7)
6. Expulsion and Re-Entrance (Gen 3:24)
7. The Blood of Sprinkling and the Blood of Abel (Gen 4:10)
8. The Way of Cain (Gen 4:16)
9. The Man of Rest (Gen 5:28,29)
10. Going Out and Keeping Out (Gen 12:1-4)
11. The Shield and the Recompense (Gen 15:1)

"The way is now opened; the sword withdrawn; the invitation unrestricted and unconditional," Bonar writes. "A new and living way! Let us draw near! Without is condemnation, within is pardon; without is death, within is life and immortality. There is no barrier now; no veil; no hindrance; no distance; no uncertainty. The blood is shed and sprinkled. Through death, life has come. The tomb becomes the gate of life. Why stand we without, as if the sword of fire were still there, or as if the veil were not rent in twain? Why hesitate, or tremble, or doubt, when all is plain, and when God himself is beckoning us in? Let us come boldly to the throne of grace. Let us draw near with a true heart, and in full assurance of faith. Let us not linger on the threshold, but at once go in. The blood which has been shed on earth and accepted in heaven, is that which emboldens us to approach with confidence, not reckoning it possible that we can be sent empty away."