Author EDWARD DENNETT
Publisher CHAPTER TWO
ISBN 1 85307 026 2
Dennett was a minister of the Baptist Church in Lewisham South London in the second half of the nineteenth century. He was sympathetic to the Christian Brethren assemblies that had come into being earlier that century and this book is a facsimile of the original and reflects a similar style to the writings of ‘the Brethren.’ It is a delightful topic to write about and although the style is comparatively ‘old fashioned’ for our tastes there is a sweetness and richness in the way he handles aspects of what it means to be a child of God, to have God as Father, to be enriched with so many privileges and the responsibilities too. He begins with a chapter about Jesus being the revealer of the Father and then proceeds to the fact that we are adopted sons in and through THE SON and having laid this foundation there are chapters dealing with the fact that there are always ‘fathers’ ‘young men’ and ‘children’ in God’s family and then he shows their characteristics. This sort of book takes us into an environment and makes us breath an atmosphere; we are shown the marks that the children of God bear in their lives and what the Father desires to see in them. The chapter on the Father’s government of His children is particularly good, showing His chastening love and Fatherly care and this thought is expanded in the section in which the privileges of being a child of God are exposited. The book winds up with a chapter on the future state and home of the family of God being with their Father in glory both of state and place. All in all a very helpful read.
