Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...as was said, it proves the dignity of him who suffered for our sins; but because it is plain also, that if the Redeemer were in himself other than God, we should miss one great motive for that personal gratitude which we are taught in Holy Scripture to pay directly to God, in so many other close relations. Accordingly, I apprehend, that almost all persons who believe in the doctrine of the redemption, regard it as almost a necessary consequence of that doctrine, to believe, that He who made, is likewise He who redeems us; that it is God's own hand which is stretched out to conduct us through the evils of our lapsed and guilty condition; that creation and redemption are alike the works of the same Author, parts of the same scheme; and perhaps we may add the conclusion, that both are equally necessary to us, that the goodness of the Creator was not more indispensable to confer the original gift of existence, than the mercy of the Redeemer to afford the hope of salvation, to give or to restore that promise of immortality which had been justly forfeited by human transgressions'. This identification of all our feelings towards God and Christ, is every way sanctioned by the sacred writers themselves. The human nature and the Divine, were, doubtless, on some occasions dissevered. Most so, perhaps, in the act of the death upon the cross. God cannot suffer: it was the man who suffered; and every human feeling, which ever has power to urge us to afford succour to our fellowcreatures, was doubtless operating in our Saviour at 1 Sherlock's Sermons, Vol. i. Disc. ii. p. 76, edition of 1754that moment to resolve and consummate this His great and painful sacrifice. But still, even in this case, where the two natures were most dissevered, we are taught to identify in some ...
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