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th at he died , they could not con&istentiv have preached a . crucified Christ . « I shall be told that though Christ is truly God , he is also man , and that it was the human , nature simply that suffered and died . I a > k , was the human nature , simply , the Christ , the Son of the living Cod ? If this question be answered in the affirmative , it follows that he was simply a man ; if it be
answered in the negative , it is a consequence equally unavoidable , that what died and rose was not the Christ , the son of the living God . While it is admitted that a divine person could not die , that it was man only that died , and that the same person who died is the Christ , I see not h « w the conclusion can be avoided , that Christ is simply a man .
<• As the New Testament proves that Christ was truly a n . an , and all the fkjets recorded suppose him to be simply such , he was capable of being crucified and slain . He was susceptible of pain , assailable by death , his enemies had power td afflict and distress him . He coiald experience the deepest
anguish of mind , feel the bitterness of reproach , the horrors of crucifixion , the agonies of the most cruel death , aggravated as it was by a thousand painful circumstances . I repeat , the true Chr&t was capable of all these things , aM did actually endure them . To transform him into a God is t ^ diminish .
not to say destroy , the reality ot his sufferings , and the love he manifested in sacrificing himself for the salvation of
men " . The apostles preached a crucified man as the Chrjst . Had human nature been merely what he assumed , merely an appendage , without which he had existed from eternity , and not what was essential to his being , what constituted his real person , the
crucifixion of his human nature would not have been the crucifixion of Christ , but merely of what he assumed , of the flesh which veiled his person . Had he been the infinite Jehovah , there . would have been no more proportion between that which was crucified and his real person , than between a grain of sand <^ d the univers e , between finite and infinite . There is more proportion Between a single hair on the head or * a man ai $ kis complete person ^ than betVft ri * " created nature and absolute - if ' >¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦
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deity ^ yet who would say , r > ecau 9 e ' a single hair had been plucked frorniithe head of a man and broker ^ tp piec es , the man had been slain and torn in pieces ? But would notthis be as proper as to say , that Christ is the eternal God , and that he was crucified , merely because the human nature "which he assumed , between which and his person there is an infinite disproportion , was crucified . " pp .
108—HZ-< c Lastly . Let the remembrance , my fellow Christians , that Christ was crucified , and that the gospel comes to you sealed with his blood , render him the more lovely ia your eyes , and his words the more precious to your souls . How difficult was the obedience he had to perform ! How painful the sufferings he had to endure ! Will you not
imitate his stedfastness in the paths of duty ? his patience under all his sufferings ? Think what it cost him to bring you the glad tidings of salvation and eternal life , to assure to you all the blessirigs of the gospel ! Can you lightly esteem what cost him so much to reveal anjflT confirm ? Can you trifle with blessings which cost him so much shame and
suffeung and even his own most precious life ? O ! prize the gospel , prize it the more because it was communicated by your crucified master , " Think of the love which . Jesus manifested to a guilty world ^ He thought no sufferings too great to
endure , not even the death of the cross , that he might effect the salvation of men . Ought you not to love him ? and if you love him shew it by your obedience to his commands . Do you profess to be his disciples ? Can you then live to yourselves ? No : imitate his love .
" See the man who died on the cross , crowned with glory and honor , appointed heir of all things ! Behold what Jesus hath attained , and what his followers arc encouraged to expect ! Follow this glorious leader , serve this beloved master , and you too shall triumph over death , and be forever with him . ' * pp « i * 4 , 125 . be coniimied . J
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* ; r' Wright $ Evangelical Discourses . Sbt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 551, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/39/
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