The Works of Robert Hall AM Author:Robert Hall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. OUTLINE OF THE ARGUMENT OF TWELVE LECTURES ON THE SOCINIAN CONTROVERSY. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE. Jude 3.—It was needful for me to write unto you, and ... more »exhort you, that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which teas once delivered to the saints. Lecture II. ON THE PRE-EXISTENCE OI CHRIST. Matt. xrii. 41, 42.— While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ ? whose son is he 1 Four classes of passages adduced in proof of this. I. Those passages which speak of the origin of Jesus Christ, and which accompany this by a specification of " the flesh " in such a formula that the flesh is never employed in a similar manner in the history of men. II. Those passages in which it is affirmed by Jesus Christ and by his disciples, that he did come down from heaven to the earth, and that by virtue of his name. III. Those passages which, though they do not exactly assert that Jesus Christ existed before he came into our world, yet this is the necessary conclusion from them. Delivered at Leicester in 1823. IV. One passage in which our Lord directly affirms this proposition in so many words, and no other proposition. (John viii. 58.) Lecture III. ON THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. Matt. xxii. 41, 42. This attempted to be proved from those passages in which the titles of God are ascribed to Jesus Christ, of which there are three kinds : I. Those in which he is styled the Son of God. II. Those in which he is styled not the Son of God, but God himself. III. Those which are quoted by the apostles from the Old Testament, in which the word Jehovah is ascribed to Jesus Christ. Lecture IV. The Divinity of Christ proved from those passages in which the creation of the visible universe is ascribed to t...« less