The MYSTERY of the KINGDOM: Traced Through the Four Books of Kings

Andrew John Jukes (1815– 1901) was an English theologian. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was initially a curate in the Church of England at St. John's Church, Hull, but became convinced of Baptist teaching and underwent adult baptism at the George Street Chapel, Hull, on August 31, 1843. After leaving the Church of England, he joined the Plymouth Brethren.Jukes later left the Plymouth Brethren and founded an independent chapel in Hull. Among those influenced by Jukes was Hudson Taylor.

Mr. Jukes is a man after Paley's own heart, —a close student, a keen observer, eminently successful in fixing on points intimately connected with veracity, although hid from the common eye. Mr. Jukes professes to have seen in the structure and diversity of the Gospels the marks of a Divine purpose; and if we mistake not, he will help others in coming to the same conclusions, which, he tells us, have been most refreshing to bis own heart, and confirmatory of his own faith. After all that has been written upon the subject, there is still a large amount of original observation presented here. The book is not a cumbrous one. Two hundred pages have sufficed for all that Mr. Jukes deems it needful to sAy. His study is, not to what extent be may expand, but how far it is safe to consult condensation. There is. therefore, no waste of words, no needless diffusion. All is close, terse, convincing, and conclusive. The reader who contemplates being a purchaser will do well, for a specimen, to plunge at once into "The Common Testimony,"—an interesting dissertation, with which the inquiry closes. He will there see it strikingly set forth, that there is one thing common to all the four Gospels,—they Unite and converge in the establishment of one great point, on which the hopes of mankind are founded.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
On the Existence and Principle of a Mystic Sense

SECTION I.
The General Character of the Books of Kings

SECTION II.
The Steps Which Led to a King

SECTION III.
The Steps Which Led to a King (continued)

SECTION IV.
The Respective Characters of the First Two Kings

SECTION V.
The Cause of God's Rejection of the First King

SECTION VI.
The Relative Position of the First Two Kings

SECTION VII.
Various Estimates of David, During the Reign of Saul

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