Oil and Wine Author:George Tyrrell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green and co. Description: "This book was first published by Mr. Sydney Mayle, of Hampstead, in April, 1906."--Publishers' pref. Subjects: Christianity Religion / Christianity / Catholic Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion... more » / Christianity / General Religion / Christianity / Denominations 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 books for free. Excerpt: XIX. THE SACRED HUMANITY. No creature should hold us back from God, since not even our Lord Himself, in so far as He vouchsafed to become the Way, wished to hold us back, but went from us lest we should cleave weakly to those things done and suffered by Him, in time, for our salvation instead of hastening onwards more quickly by means of them.1 Christ in His humanity, is the Way, and no man cometh to the Father but by that Way; for, no man hath seen God at any time, that he should have any adequate or proper conception of the Divine nature, or should see otherwise than through the darkened glass of analogies drawn from finite things; or in the enigmas of antimony and paradox. But the Only-Begotten " who is in the bosom of the Father," He hath declared Him and manifested His Name or Nature upon earth; He hath shown us the Father as far as the Father can possibly be shown to minds like ours; as far as He can be spoken in human language, and expressed in the terms of the most perfect human life. " The Word " (the reflex of the Father) "was made flesh," was translated into the terms of humanity, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth. He who hath seen Him hath, so far, seen the Father; for there is nothing in Him of gentleness, goodness, love, wisdom, power, compassion,...« less