Review: God’s Way of Peace by Horatius Bonar
In this video, we take a look at the wonderful little book, God’s Way of Peace: Overcoming Anxiety by Walking with God by Horatius Bonar.
Or, you can just listen to the audio here:
God’s Way of Peace by Horatius Bonar
Book info
P. #: p. 139, comes from set put out by Christian Heritage.
Author: Horatius Bonar
Life: Born 1808, died 1889 (aged 80). He came from a long line of ministers. He and his fathers served the Church in Scotland for a total of 364 years. In 1843, he married Jane C. Bonar, who, like Horatius, was a hymnwriter and poet. Horatius Bonar published some 100 hymns during his life. Bonar was one of the several extremely influential ministers in Scotland at the time and was able to reach 100s of 1000s even in his day.
General info about author: Horatius Bonar was a pastor for over 50 years, seminary professor, author, poet, hymnwriter, husband, and father of nine.
His passion and conviction to speak God’s truth is shown on p. 7 in his very first sermon (READ)
Overall Summery/review:
The forward is written by Matt Boswell, a modern hymn-writer. He professes the book well by saying this on p. 9. Boswell offers a brief (extremely brief) overview biography, a very brief overview of the book, and provides the text to one of Bonar’s many hymns, “The Voice from Galilee.”
This book encourages us to no longer fear our salvation is true or false, but to look to Christ, knowing that His work is effectual. 126-127.
Content: Read Table of Contents.
Quotes: 37, 38, 48, 53, 57, 66, 75, 94, 123-124, 138
Some of the quotes mentioned in this video:
“Humbled, even while in a sense envying him, at hearing that that one book of my brother’s, God’s Way of Peace, has had a circulation of 280,000, and very greatly blessed.” - Andrew Bonar (Life and Diary of Andrew Bonar, p. 273)
“To know His character, as thus interpreted to us by Jesus and His cross, is to have peace.” - p. 37
“In all unbelief there are two things: a good opinion of one’s self and a bad opinion of God.” - p. 38
“Yes, faith takes this righteous grace of God, and with it a righteous pardon, a righteous salvation, and a righteous heirship of the everlasting glory.” - p. 48
“If Christ is not the Substitute, He is nothing to the sinner. If He did not die as the Sin-bearer, He has died in vain.” - p. 53
“The more that we know of His person and His work, the more shall we be satisfied, in heart and conscience, with provision that God has made for our great need.” - p. 57
“We are not only to believe the truth, but we are to believe it because God has spoken it. Faith must have a divine foundation.” - p. 66
“The Bible is a living Book, not a dead one; a divine one, not a human one; a perfect one, not an imperfect one. Search it, study it, dig into it.” - p. 75
“Oh, the unutterable guilt involved even in one moment’s unbelief, one single act of an unbelieving soul!” - p. 94