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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE V. On the Divinity of Christ,--continued;--Evidence of the New Testament. In proceeding with our examination of the Scriptural evidences of that great doctrine of our Church,--the confession of the Divinity of its ever-hlessed head and founder Jesus Christ, we have now arrived at that which is undoubtedly its great appropriate groundwork, the Scriptures of the New Testament; for in those of the Old we never professed to look for more than distant and obscure intimations, and a general consistency and agreement in the harmony of the faith, then only to be clearly appreciated, when that faith should ultimately become more fully revealed. Even in the New Testament itself we still observe a gradual development of the great doctrines of our faith: our Lord himself professedly withheld their full manifestation until the completion of his earthly career, until having gone up on high, and received gifts for men, he sent his Holy Spirit to guide his disciples into all truth. It was not until the whole scheme was completed that its leading features were fully revealed. The purposes for which the Divine wisdom adopted this method of gradual development may be indeed to us inscrutable; but we cannot read the declarations of our blessed Lord himself, as recorded in the documents in question, and deny that it was adopted. In the earlier Gospels, therefore, which profess only to contain narratives of the earthly ministry of Christ, we must on these grounds naturally expect to find less clear and explicit declarations, than in those later Epistles, the very subject-matter of which is the exposition of the doctrine, after the scheme was completed and the Spirit had descended. But is it to be supposed, that we therefore for a moment admit that the...
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