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. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... in his image, glorified together with him, --these are the expressions by which this union is denoted. There is enough here for faith to feed on, without sullying the mirror of God's justice or overclouding his truth: peace and consolation enough without raising a suspicion which secretly destroys ...
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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. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... in his image, glorified together with him, --these are the expressions by which this union is denoted. There is enough here for faith to feed on, without sullying the mirror of God's justice or overclouding his truth: peace and consolation enough without raising a suspicion which secretly destroys peace. It is a great thing to set Christ always before us as an example; and he who does so is not far from the kingdom of heaven. But that of which the Apostle speaks is not merely the example of Christ, but communion with him; the indwelling of Christ in our hearts, the conscious recognition that he is the will and the power within us to do rightly. II. But we need also to pass out of ourselves, and find an assurance which is independent of the liveliness or intensity of our own consciousness. We wish to know that when we close our eyes the light is there; that when the grave covers us, there is a God to whom we still live. That assurance is given us by the life and death of Christ. That perfect harmony of nature, that absolute self-renunciation, that pure love, that entire resignation, continued through life and ending in death, are facts, independent of our feelings, which remain as they were, whether we acknowledge them or not. Not the sacrifice, nor the satisfaction, nor the ransom, but the greatest moral act ever done in this world, --the act, too, of one in our likeness, --is the assurance to us that God in Christ is reconciled to the world. III. It is a true and Christian feeling, that, after we have done all, we are unprofitable servants. Even the best of us well know that the less we think of our own lives the better. Our actions will not bear taking to pieces, --the garment of self is a ragged and tattered patchwork. If an eminent...
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