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sake , but for theirs ; he came not out into the world to be served by them , but to serve them : and was about to carry his services so far ,
as hereafter to lay down his life in their behalf . The people cry out , Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ ? howbeit , we know this man whence
he is , when Christ cometh , no man knoweth whence he is /' Th ^ re was a trad i tion among the Jews , vain indeed and groundless , yetj as it seems , very prevalent , that their Messiah should for a
considerable time lie concealed in the world , and that when he made his public appearance among them , ' it should be suddenly and unexpectedly and no man should be able to Say whence he came . They knfcw that Jesus came among them out of Galilee , and it was this circumstance which
created their suspicion , that , notwithstanding the miracles they saw him work , he was not their Messiah . They did not speak of his birth , for that they knew and owned was to be in Bethlehem ;
it was of his appearance in the public character in which the Father had sent him , viz . into ihe world , among mankind , publicly to preach as his , a doctrine which he ( Jesus ) hkd received from him . The miracles -that Jesus
wrought testified nothing relating to his birth or entrance into life ; what they testified was this , that he had received the doctrine which he preached from God , and was divinely authorised to publish it to the world .
Jesus speaking of himself , says , li He whom t ^ e Father hath sanctified and sent into the world . " He was first sanctified , anointed with the hoiy spirit and with
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power ; thus set apart , consecrated to his office , and qualified to discharge it , and then sent into the world to enter on the execution of it . He came into the world after his baptism , at which
the holy spirit descended upon him , and not before .. . . " He whom God hath sent , " says the Baptist , speaketh the words of God , for God hath not given the spirit by measure unto him /'— He who hath been sent to speak to you to teach you the doctrines into which you saw him baptised , speaketh nothing but the words of God : his doctrine is not his own , but his > vho sent hifrv out to preach it/— - " The works that I do , ' says our Lord , bear witness of me that the Father hath .
sent me . But these miracles , as it has been already observed , testified nothing concerning his birth or entrance into life .
The apostle Paul , speaking to the Galatians , says , that when the fulness of time was come , it pleased God to send forth his Son made of a woman , made under the law , to redeem them that were under the law . ' The apostle does not speak of Christ ' s being born into the world , but of his being sent out amnng mankind , and particularly among the Jews , to minister unto them . Uy his
doctrine , to raise their minds above those childish elements of
religion in which they trusted ; to initiate them into a bitter dispensation ; to declare to them the abolition of that under which they had lived ; and thus to deliver them from the bondage of the law .
TUo Son of Godn according to the apostle ' s wordsj already born , ami born under the Jewish dispensation , was sent foi th for thesfi
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Mr . Cappcy on some Scriptural Phrases ,, 183
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/29/
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