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The Names and Titles of Jesus Christ, as Given in the New Testament
The Names and Titles of Jesus Christ as Given in the New Testament Author:William Dowling General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 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: Section III. Cities af am f HIS DIVINE NATUEE. The Son Of God. Thjs Beloved Son. The Only Begotten Son. The First Born or Every Creature. The Imaoe or The Invisible God. These five titles bring the Saviour before our view in tie glory of His Divinity. As Son of God we worship Him, by whom all things were made. The Beloved Son declares Him as the object of the Father's mysterious love before the world began. The Only begotten Son reminds us of the incomprehensible union which subsisted from everlasting ages between the Eternal Father and the Eternal Son. The First Born of Every Creature leads our faith to Him who was " before all things "; and inThe Image of the Invisible God we behold our Lord as the only revealer of the Father; whom no eye hath seen in His pure essential Divinity. The Son Of God. Matt. iv. 8 ; viii. 29 ; xiv. 33; xvi. 16 ; xxvi. 63, 64 ; xxvii. 40, 43, 54. Mark i. 1; v. 7. Luke i. 35; xxii. 70. John i. 34; vi. 69. Bom. i. 4. Some titles of our Lord are easily understood; we can easily comprehend such names as Saviour, Messiah, and King. But others are so bright with a Divine glory, that reasoning is hushed in solemn adoration. This title, " the Son of God," is one which no " men of understanding " can explain. Years of deepest thought cannot solve the mystery. An Eternal Father, an Eternal Son, are matters which, perhaps, no created being will ever understand. Can any creature '' find out the Almighty unto perfection ?"f Five classes of witnesses have asserted this title of the Saviour. First came the prophets. David, himself a type of the Messiah, foretold the hope of Is...« less