“God’s way of peace”, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar, of Scotland, has been adopted, and is now issued, by the Presbyterian Publication Committee with the belief that its wide circulation will be of the greatest service to the cause of Christ. To the troubled, anxious, and inquiring, it is a guide and helper. It leads them to Christ crucified, the present Saviour, the complete salvation - to Christ, not an assistant, but a Saviour. It incites him to labor for God’s dear Son with the happy earnestness of those who are entirely, as well as freely, forgiven; whose reward is his approving smile. (From the Preface)

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• Editor’s Preface

• God’s Testimony Concerning Man

• Man’s Own Character No Ground of Peace

• God’s Character Our Resting-place

• Righteous Grace

• Chapter V. the Blood of Sprinkling

• The Person and Work of the Substitute

• The Word of the Truth of the Gospel

• Believe and Be Saved

• Believe Just Now

• The Want of Power to Believe

• Insensibility

• Jesus Only

The son of James Bonar, Solicitor of Excise for Scotland, he was born and educated in Edinburgh. He came 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.