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The Holy Week, or the Passion of Our Blessed Saviour, With a Supplement for Easter, Taken From Paraphrase and Comment on the Epistles and
The Holy Week or the Passion of Our Blessed Saviour With a Supplement for Easter Taken From Paraphrase and Comment on the Epistles and Author:George Stanhope Title: The Holy Week, or the Passion of Our Blessed Saviour, With a Supplement for Easter, Taken From Paraphrase and Comment on the Epistles and Gospels Used in the Liturgy of the Church of England General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1828 Original Publisher: Rivington Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint o... more »f 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 books for free. Excerpt: But, in what respect and capacity these honours were conferred on Christ is the main point to be attended to in the case now under consideration. As God, they could not be conferred; for His glory in this regard was perfect before. He could not thus receive any reward, any increase of honour. That supreme and absolute dominion was inherent and essential to Him: that universal adoration was His strict due from all eternity. Whatever addition He was capable of, He must be capable of as man: the elevation of His human nature is therefore the thing intended by the apostle. In this nature it was that He obeyed, and merited, and suffered; in this consequently it is that He was rewarded and exalted. And a marvellous exaltation it is, to place human nature upon the throne of God ; to subject to this angels, and principalities, and powers, men and devils, all things in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth. A suitable reward it is to that nature, which suffered such indignities and pains, for all the barbarous treatment and bitter torment it endured here below, to shine so bright, and partake in all the majesty of the Son of God; Who, by uniting it inseparably to His own Person, and thus vouchsafing to take part in its infirmities and sufferings, entitled this human nature, now His own likeness, to a share in all the bliss and glories of that divine nature, which was originally, and ...« less