Horatius Bonar (1808 – 1889) was a Scottish pastor, poet, and devotional writer.
This book contains the following Christ-centred mediations on the book of Hebrews:
The One Great Purging
The Rest of God
The Mischief of Unbelief
The Deceitfulness of Unbelief
The Beginning of Our Confidence
Bold Access to the True Mercy Seat
Dullness of Hearing
God’s Loving Memory
The Divine Anchor and the Soul’s Anchorage
The Introduction of the Better Hope
The High Priest of the Good Things to Come
Entrance Into the Holiest by the Blood
The One Offering and the Great Reappearing
Conscience Pacified for Ever
The Imperfect and the Perfect Priesthood
Unseen Things and Their Influence
Noah’s Faith and the World’s Condemnation
The Better Choice of Moses
Faith’s Vision of an Invisible God
The Holy Fire of the Altar
Let Us Go Forth
The son of James Bonar, Solicitor of Excise for Scotland, he was born and educated in Edinburgh. He comes from a long line of ministers who have served a total of 364 years in the Church of Scotland. One of eleven children, his brothers John James and Andrew Alexander were also ministers of the Free Church of Scotland. He had married Jane Catherine Lundie in 1843 and five of their young children died in succession. Towards the end of their lives, one of their surviving daughters was left a widow with five small children and she returned to live with her parents. Bonar's wife, Jane, died in 1876. He is buried in the Canongate Kirkyard.
In 1853 Bonar earned the Doctor of Divinity degree at the University of Aberdeen.
He entered the Ministry of the Church of Scotland. At first he was put in charge of mission work at St. John's parish in Leith and settled at Kelso. He joined the Free Church at the time of the Disruption of 1843, and in 1867 was moved to Edinburgh to take over the Chalmers Memorial Church (named after his teacher at college, Dr. Thomas Chalmers). In 1883, he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.... Show more