This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 Excerpt: ...The opponents of the Eternal Sonship of our Lord are, then, either reduced to the necessity of affirming that there is no person in the Godhead who bears the name of Son and exists in that related state, and, consequently, that there are no persons in the Godhead; (for we have shown, that if there be persons, the Son ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 Excerpt: ...The opponents of the Eternal Sonship of our Lord are, then, either reduced to the necessity of affirming that there is no person in the Godhead who bears the name of Son and exists in that related state, and, consequently, that there are no persons in the Godhead; (for we have shown, that if there be persons, the Son must be essentially a person)--or else they must assert the preposterous contradiction, that the state of manhood caused to the Son his state of Sonship.--We have shown that his Godhead cannot change its state--that even his human soul never changed, and nevervcan change its functions--that it possesses one and only one influential principle, which must be one, in consequence of the source from which it is derived. This principle increased, because it was in his human soul, but it does not in reality assume differ ent functions; it only appears to do so in consequence of our situation. He has the all-prevalent energy of this principle in his nature; and to us, and for us, it is that of a Prophet, a Priest, and a King. It is our state which causes us to experience the benefits flowing therefrom. This principle comes to us in our wants and in our crimes, by the fitness and adaptation of sating love. The love which enlightens our understanding is to us the love of a Prophet; the love which washes away the guilt of sin is that of a Priest; and the love which rules in us, and "restrains and conquers all his and our enemies," is that of a King. But, because such is the fact, we cannot deduce from it the monstrous inference, that a person inhering in the Divine nature assumes another state with reference to the other persons in the Godhead. This would be to affirm that, --because in consequence of our condition the energy of God in Christ mus...
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