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government and will . And of the great Messiah , the Mediator of the covenant of the Gospel , it invariably speaks as the man Christ Jesus ; never even intimating that his nature and person are mysterious , and certainly holding ; forth no such intelligence in
the sentences on which I am commenting . Farther ; It ought not to be concluded from the last clause , ' he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him , ' that Jesus communicates to any of his followers a private or individual revelation of the nature or the mind of God . This
mistake is very current , and tends to p roduce in some men spiritual pride , in others religious despondency * It is a public revelation which our Lord here mentions ; one that was made in part by his own instrumentality , in
part by that of his apostles . There are two passages in the New Testament with which the words before us ought especially to be compared : John i . 18 , " No man hath seen God at any time ; the only begotten Son , who is in the
bosom of the Father , " i . e . who has a com pleat acquaintance with the Divine counsels for the salvation of the world , " he hath declared him : " Matt . xiii . 16 , 17 , " — verily , I say unto you that blessed are your eyes , &c . ; for many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see , and have not seen them , and to hear those things which ye hear , and have not heard . them . " v So far therefore is the phraseology which has been the subject of these remarks from stating or implying the existence of a mysterious union between the Father and the Son that it declares a plain and most interesting truth : I mean , the concurrence of God and Christ as to the grand objects and vast extent of the Christian Revelation ; a truth particularly valuable to those professors of the Gospel who are of Gentile parentage ! N .
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August 7 th 9 1816 . Supplementary Remarks on the Priesthood of Christ . [ See pp . 402 , 403 . ] IT is usua | with writers on systematic theology to represent Jesus Christ as sustaining the several offices of prophely priest and king . This division , though not exactly this arrangement ,
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of his characters , is adopted in 'tt Racovian Catechism ;* a manual which ' I hope , will soon be more extensive ! v known among my readers , and fY 0 ni which 1 shall uow make two extracts on a subject to which their attention has lately been directed : f-
** — was he [ Christ ] not a priest till he entered into the heaven ? not when he hung upon the cross ?" " A . At no hand ; for , as you heard even now , the divine author to the Hebrews , ch . viii . 4 , expressl y saith
that if Christ were upon the earth , he would not be a priest . Besides , forasmuch as the same author testifieth that Christ ou ^ ht in all things to he made like unto nis brethren , that he might become a faithful and merciful high priest to God ward , it is evident ttat until he had been made like unto his
brethren in all things , that is in afflictions and death , he was not our merciful and faithful high priest . " The following question and answer , deserve the notice of careful inquirers into the sense of Scripture : " Why doth the Scripture , treating of Christ ' s priesthood , say that he intercedeth for us ?"
" A . Both that the care which Christ takes of our salvation might , by the requests which he is said to make to God , appear to us ; and also that the prerogative and eminency of the Father above Christ might remam entire and inviolate . "
Here the compiler of the Catechism alludes to Hcb . vii . 24 , 25 . But the word intcrcessioriy which occurs in that passage , docs not necessarily and exclusively import the act of offering supplications for the welfare of others . It is a term of very extensive signification , and means the management of the concerns of our fello w men .
The intercession of Christ , therefore , is not his pleading with , oP " ended justice , or his interposing to avert Divine wrath : it is a part of his mediation or ministry as the appointed Messenge r of God and Saviour of mankind ; and thus , in the language of this Catechism , it illustrates " the prerogative and eminency of the Father . " ^'
. — * Translated into English . Amsterdam , 1652 . pp . lfta , &c . Catechesis KcckMaruJB Polonicarum . 3 25 , &c . f JM . Repos . XI . 402 , 403 .
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534 Supplementary Remarks on the Priesthood ' of Christ . 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 534, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/34/
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