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and n # w is , vvlien the- true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth . " We have liere <* ome useful remarks on the word worship in the scriptures ; and the true object of worship , the character in which He wills himself to be worshipped , and the nature of acceptable worship are clearly defined . D . IV . " Jesus the BelcweJ Son of God , " from Matt . xvii . 5 . 4
* This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased , hear ye him , " is on the person of Christ , arid in proof that the Man of Nazareth was the same as the Son of
God , and that this title belongs to his character and not to his nature ^ and may therefore be acquired by all such as will imitate that righteousness on account of which Jesus is highly exalted . * Th $ practical use of the subject" is excellent , — we shall quote one Short paragraph frc > m it : —
" How arc we to hear Jesus Christ ? It cannot be by any secret whispers , nor by attending to sudden impulses , the
effect of imagination or agitated feelings , nor in dreams or visions , nor by any immediate revelation from him , nor by any inward teaching of the spirit . These things are always uncertain , illusory , and have often greatly misled men . Jesus hath answered the above
question . He said to hi > apostles , He that hcareth you , heareth me : what they taught was by command and direction from him > they had the mind of Christ and declared it . There is no way in which we can hear him but as we hear his apostles , and we can hear them only so far as we attend to the things contained in the New Testament , where their doctrine is recorded . By hearing
the New Testament we hear the Apostles , we hear Christ , we hear God who spoke by his son . Every other way of pretending ^ to hear ^ Christ is altogether imaginary ftitd deceptive . pp . 101 , ioz . D * V . " 1 he preaching of Christ crucified , " from 1 Cor * i .
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23 , " We preach Christ crlicu fied , " is an admirable specimen of the true missionary stvle of preaching , argumentative yet per , suasive , plaiu but not trite , a few extracts will justify our encomium .
< c Though all Christians admit that Christ was crucified , notions have prevailed , and still prevail , incompatible with this fact in its full latitude and simple import . What the apostles testified was not merely , that something which belonged to Christ , which constituted a part of bim while on earth , was crucified ; but that jhe > himself , the very Christ , in his real atid proper per * son , was crucified .
The fact we arc contemplating coultj not be real if in the nature of thing * impossible . Unless Chiist , in his proper person , was capable of suffering and dying , it cannot be true that h * actually suffered and died * If only a
part of him could die , and if that part was extremely diminutive , in comparison of his real person , it follows that it was not the real Christ that died for us , but only such diminutive part of him . Had Christ been the
self-existent God , it would have been impossible for the Jews to have crucified and slain him- It is in the nature of things impossible that God should suffer and die . Who can suppose that the Jews either did , or could , crucify the Almighty ? that the Being , whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain , was
hanged on a tree , laid in a tomb , and raised from the dead ? that the only living and true God gave , up the ghost ? Tremendous thought ! if God died who then could live ? for in him all live , and move , and have their being . Had God died , the whole creation must have sunk in ruins , the universe have
become a vast tomb ! Had he tfied , who is the life of all , where could lift have remained for a single moment ? , Had God died , who could Jiawc raj $£ him up ? It is not a shadow I am com bating ; many good men have used such unguarded language as conveys the idea that God died ; have talked of a dying and rising God , and multitudee of Christians imagine that Christ , who was crucified , was truly God . Had : tl } c apostles taught that the Messiah was truly God , they could not without manifest self-contradictuwn have taugn <
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. 550 Wright ' s Evangelical Discourses .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/38/
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