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101 He came then to attract man's sense-bound attention to Himself as man, and so to lead him on to know Him as God. 102 How the Incarnation did not limit the ubiquity of the Word, nor diminish His Purity. (Simile of the Sun.) 103 How the Word and Power of God works in His human actions: by casting out devils, by Miracles, by His Birth of the Virgin. 104 Man, unmoved by nature, was to be taught to know God by that sacred Manhood, Whose deity all nature confessed, especially in His Death. 105 None, then, could bestow incorruption, but He Who had made, none restore the likeness of God, save His Own Image, none quicken, but the Life, none teach, but the Word. And He, to pay our debt of death, must also die for us, and rise again as our first-fruits from the grave. Mortal therefore His Body must be; corruptible, His Body could not be. 106 Death brought to nought by the death of Christ. Why then did not Christ die privately, or in a more honourable way? He was not subject to natural death, but had to die at the hands of others. Why then did He die? Nay but for that purpose He came, and but for that, He could not have risen. 107 But why did He not withdraw His body from the Jews, and so guard its immortality? (1) It became Him not to inflict death on Himself, and yet not to shun it. (2) He came to receive death as the due of others, therefore it should come to Him from without. (3) His death must be certain, to guarantee the truth of His Resurrection. Also, He could not die from infirmity, lest He should be mocked in His healing of others. 108 Necessity of a public death for the doctrine of the Resurrection. 109 Further objections anticipated. He did not choose His manner of death; for He was to prove Conqueror of death in all or any of its forms: (simile of a good wrestler). The death chosen to disgrace Him proved the Trophy against death: moreover it preserved His body undivided. 110 Why the Cross, of all deaths? (1) He had to bear the curse for us. (2) On it He held out His hands to unite all, Jews and Gentiles, in Himself. (3) He defeated the “Prince of the powers of the air” in His own region, clearing the way to heaven and opening for us the everlasting doors. 111 Reasons for His rising on the Third Day. (1) Not sooner for else His real death would be denied, nor (2) later; to (a) guard the identity of His body, (b) not to keep His disciples too long in suspense, nor (c) to wait till the witnesses of His death were dispersed, or its memory faded. 112 The change wrought by the Cross in the relation of Death to Man. 113 This exceptional fact must be tested by experience. Let those who doubt it become Christians. 114 Here then are wonderful effects, and a sufficient cause, the Cross, to account for them, as sunrise accounts for daylight. 115 The reality of the resurrection proved by facts: (1) the victory over death described above: (2) the Wonders of Grace are the work of One Living, of One who is God: (3) if the gods be (as alleged) real and living, a fortiori He Who shatters their power is alive. 116 If Power is the sign of life, what do we learn from the impotence of idols, for good or evil, and the constraining power of Christ and of the Sign of the Cross? Death and the demons are by this proved to have lost their sovereignty. Coincidence of the above argument from facts with that from the Personality of Christ. 117 But who is to see Him risen, so as to believe? Nay, God is ever invisible and known by His works only: and here the works cry out in proof. If you do not believe, look at those who do, and perceive the Godhead of Christ. The demons see this, though men be blind. Summary of the argument so far. 118 Unbelief of Jews and scoffing of Greeks. The former confounded by their own Scriptures. Prophecies of His coming as God and as Man. 119 Prophecies of His passion and death in all its circumstances. 120 Prophecies of the Cross. How these prophecies are satisfied in Christ alone. 121 Prophecies of Christ's sovereignty, flight into Egypt, &c. 122 Psalm xxii. 16, &c. Majesty of His birth and death. Confusion of oracles and demons in Egypt. 123 Other clear prophecies of the coming of God in the flesh. Christ's miracles unprecedented. 124 Do you look for another? But Daniel foretells the exact time. Objections to this removed. 125 Argument (1) from the withdrawal of prophecy and destruction of Jerusalem, (2) from the conversion of the Gentiles, and that to the God of Moses. What more remains for the Messiah to do, that Christ has not done?
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416 chapters English Public domain
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416 chapters
101 He came then to attract man's sense-bound attention to Himself as man, and so to lead him on to know Him as God. 102 How the Incarnation did not limit the ubiquity of the Word, nor diminish His Purity. (Simile of the Sun.) 103 How the Word and Power of God works in His human actions: by casting out devils, by Miracles, by His Birth of the Virgin. 104 Man, unmoved by nature, was to be taught to know God by that sacred Manhood, Whose deity all nature confessed, especially in His Death. 105 None, then, could bestow incorruption, but He Who had made, none restore the likeness of God, save His Own Image, none quicken, but the Life, none teach, but the Word. And He, to pay our debt of death, must also die for us, and rise again as our first-fruits from the grave. Mortal therefore His Body must be; corruptible, His Body could not be. 106 Death brought to nought by the death of Christ. Why then did not Christ die privately, or in a more honourable way? He was not subject to natural death, but had to die at the hands of others. Why then did He die? Nay but for that purpose He came, and but for that, He could not have risen. 107 But why did He not withdraw His body from the Jews, and so guard its immortality? (1) It became Him not to inflict death on Himself, and yet not to shun it. (2) He came to receive death as the due of others, therefore it should come to Him from without. (3) His death must be certain, to guarantee the truth of His Resurrection. Also, He could not die from infirmity, lest He should be mocked in His healing of others. 108 Necessity of a public death for the doctrine of the Resurrection. 109 Further objections anticipated. He did not choose His manner of death; for He was to prove Conqueror of death in all or any of its forms: (simile of a good wrestler). The death chosen to disgrace Him proved the Trophy against death: moreover it preserved His body undivided. 110 Why the Cross, of all deaths? (1) He had to bear the curse for us. (2) On it He held out His hands to unite all, Jews and Gentiles, in Himself. (3) He defeated the “Prince of the powers of the air” in His own region, clearing the way to heaven and opening for us the everlasting doors. 111 Reasons for His rising on the Third Day. (1) Not sooner for else His real death would be denied, nor (2) later; to (a) guard the identity of His body, (b) not to keep His disciples too long in suspense, nor (c) to wait till the witnesses of His death were dispersed, or its memory faded. 112 The change wrought by the Cross in the relation of Death to Man. 113 This exceptional fact must be tested by experience. Let those who doubt it become Christians. 114 Here then are wonderful effects, and a sufficient cause, the Cross, to account for them, as sunrise accounts for daylight. 115 The reality of the resurrection proved by facts: (1) the victory over death described above: (2) the Wonders of Grace are the work of One Living, of One who is God: (3) if the gods be (as alleged) real and living, a fortiori He Who shatters their power is alive. 116 If Power is the sign of life, what do we learn from the impotence of idols, for good or evil, and the constraining power of Christ and of the Sign of the Cross? Death and the demons are by this proved to have lost their sovereignty. Coincidence of the above argument from facts with that from the Personality of Christ. 117 But who is to see Him risen, so as to believe? Nay, God is ever invisible and known by His works only: and here the works cry out in proof. If you do not believe, look at those who do, and perceive the Godhead of Christ. The demons see this, though men be blind. Summary of the argument so far. 118 Unbelief of Jews and scoffing of Greeks. The former confounded by their own Scriptures. Prophecies of His coming as God and as Man. 119 Prophecies of His passion and death in all its circumstances. 120 Prophecies of the Cross. How these prophecies are satisfied in Christ alone. 121 Prophecies of Christ's sovereignty, flight into Egypt, &c. 122 Psalm xxii. 16, &c. Majesty of His birth and death. Confusion of oracles and demons in Egypt. 123 Other clear prophecies of the coming of God in the flesh. Christ's miracles unprecedented. 124 Do you look for another? But Daniel foretells the exact time. Objections to this removed. 125 Argument (1) from the withdrawal of prophecy and destruction of Jerusalem, (2) from the conversion of the Gentiles, and that to the God of Moses. What more remains for the Messiah to do, that Christ has not done?
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101 He came then to attract man's sense-bound attention to Himself as man, and so to lead him on to know Him as God. 102 How the Incarnation did not limit the ubiquity of the Word, nor diminish His Purity. (Simile of the Sun.) 103 How the Word and Power of God works in His human actions: by casting out devils, by Miracles, by His Birth of the Virgin. 104 Man, unmoved by nature, was to be taught to know God by that sacred Manhood, Whose deity all nature confessed, especially in His Death. 105 None, then, could bestow incorruption, but He Who had made, none restore the likeness of God, save His Own Image, none quicken, but the Life, none teach, but the Word. And He, to pay our debt of death, must also die for us, and rise again as our first-fruits from the grave. Mortal therefore His Body must be; corruptible, His Body could not be. 106 Death brought to nought by the death of Christ. Why then did not Christ die privately, or in a more honourable way? He was not subject to natural death, but had to die at the hands of others. Why then did He die? Nay but for that purpose He came, and but for that, He could not have risen. 107 But why did He not withdraw His body from the Jews, and so guard its immortality? (1) It became Him not to inflict death on Himself, and yet not to shun it. (2) He came to receive death as the due of others, therefore it should come to Him from without. (3) His death must be certain, to guarantee the truth of His Resurrection. Also, He could not die from infirmity, lest He should be mocked in His healing of others. 108 Necessity of a public death for the doctrine of the Resurrection. 109 Further objections anticipated. He did not choose His manner of death; for He was to prove Conqueror of death in all or any of its forms: (simile of a good wrestler). The death chosen to disgrace Him proved the Trophy against death: moreover it preserved His body undivided. 110 Why the Cross, of all deaths? (1) He had to bear the curse for us. (2) On it He held out His hands to unite all, Jews and Gentiles, in Himself. (3) He defeated the “Prince of the powers of the air” in His own region, clearing the way to heaven and opening for us the everlasting doors. 111 Reasons for His rising on the Third Day. (1) Not sooner for else His real death would be denied, nor (2) later; to (a) guard the identity of His body, (b) not to keep His disciples too long in suspense, nor (c) to wait till the witnesses of His death were dispersed, or its memory faded. 112 The change wrought by the Cross in the relation of Death to Man. 113 This exceptional fact must be tested by experience. Let those who doubt it become Christians. 114 Here then are wonderful effects, and a sufficient cause, the Cross, to account for them, as sunrise accounts for daylight. 115 The reality of the resurrection proved by facts: (1) the victory over death described above: (2) the Wonders of Grace are the work of One Living, of One who is God: (3) if the gods be (as alleged) real and living, a fortiori He Who shatters their power is alive. 116 If Power is the sign of life, what do we learn from the impotence of idols, for good or evil, and the constraining power of Christ and of the Sign of the Cross? Death and the demons are by this proved to have lost their sovereignty. Coincidence of the above argument from facts with that from the Personality of Christ. 117 But who is to see Him risen, so as to believe? Nay, God is ever invisible and known by His works only: and here the works cry out in proof. If you do not believe, look at those who do, and perceive the Godhead of Christ. The demons see this, though men be blind. Summary of the argument so far. 118 Unbelief of Jews and scoffing of Greeks. The former confounded by their own Scriptures. Prophecies of His coming as God and as Man. 119 Prophecies of His passion and death in all its circumstances. 120 Prophecies of the Cross. How these prophecies are satisfied in Christ alone. 121 Prophecies of Christ's sovereignty, flight into Egypt, &c. 122 Psalm xxii. 16, &c. Majesty of His birth and death. Confusion of oracles and demons in Egypt. 123 Other clear prophecies of the coming of God in the flesh. Christ's miracles unprecedented. 124 Do you look for another? But Daniel foretells the exact time. Objections to this removed. 125 Argument (1) from the withdrawal of prophecy and destruction of Jerusalem, (2) from the conversion of the Gentiles, and that to the God of Moses. What more remains for the Messiah to do, that Christ has not done?
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