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An Extensive Inquiry Into the Questions, What It Is to Preach Christ, and What Is the Best Mode of Preaching Him
An Extensive Inquiry Into the Questions What It Is to Preach Christ and What Is the Best Mode of Preaching Him Author:Richard Lloyd General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1825 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. And this observation brings me to the consideration of the question, -- What is it to preach Christ, in a more direct and circumscribed manner ? In this more limited statement of the truths included in the promulgation of the gospel, I comprehend whatever God has, in his infinite wisdom and condescension, been pleased to reveal of the divine and human nature of Christ, and of his mediatorial character and offices. His infinite perfections, as ' God over all, blessed for ever,' -- equal to the Father, and one with him, impress a sacred majesty and grandeur upon the gospel dispensation, while they confer an inestimable value and merit upon his obedience. His essential divinity is, indeed, the sun, as it were, of the Christian system. It illustrates and ennobles every part of it; it invests it with a height and depth of mercy more than commensurate to the height and depth of human guilt and misery. One deep loudly calls upon another, and is answered inrich and superabundant supplies of grace. The sublime mystery of godliness, into which angels desire to look, is -- the manifestation of God in our flesh. This is that stupendous doctrine which concentrates and harmonizes all the other doctrines of scripture; they derive their life and influence from it. Deny the divinity of Christ, and you destroy at once their solidity and coherence. For want of a central point of union, they will exhibit an incongruous, disjointed form, without any consistent texture or symmetry; being shorn of what constitutes their peculiar splendour and beauty, they will emit no longer the light of life, but sink, accord...« less