By the late REV. DR. KENNEDY, Dingwall.
In the recently republished pamphlet of articles by the late Rev. Dr. Kennedy, Dingwall, he gives the following ten marks of the type of Gospel preaching that was signally blessed by the Lord in times past: “(1) An exposition of the claims and a faithful proclamation of the terrors of the Law of works; (2) A stern insisting on the necessity of regeneration by the creative power of the Holy Ghost; (3) A careful tracing of all salvation to the sovereign electing love of God; (4) A painstaking presentation of the Scriptural doctrine of Christ’s person; (5) A clear statement of the doctrine of the atonement—Messiah the substitute of the unjust—Divine blood the purchase price—elect sinners the bought people—and peace and salvation to the purchased people, the unfailing result of the death on the cross; (6) A full-orbed declaration of the doctrines of grace according to the federal system of
theology; (7) A Scriptural delineation of the exercises of spiritual life in the souls of the regenerated; (8) A searching examination of the grounds on which a religious profession may be based, and of the fruits by which a true profession can be accredited; (9) A zealous declaration of the unchanging authority of the Moral Law as administered by Christ, and a careful unfolding of its claims to the obedience of all who believe; and (10) A clear, unhesitating proclamation of the Gospel call to every sinner, as giving him a warrant to come for a free and full salvation to Christ, and assuring him that every coming sinner shall be saved, and leaving all excuseless who refuse to come.”