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. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... would have us believe, that Christ stooped to negate His very office and Nature and wrought three contemptible miracles for mere Personal deliverance, then the entire fabric of Christianity with redemption collapses like a house of cards. Concessions of this kind undermine the bases of our faith. The defence ...
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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. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... would have us believe, that Christ stooped to negate His very office and Nature and wrought three contemptible miracles for mere Personal deliverance, then the entire fabric of Christianity with redemption collapses like a house of cards. Concessions of this kind undermine the bases of our faith. The defence of miracles here amounts to an attack from the inside upon our religion, and a sacrifice of the title-deeds. Well may the Church fear the enemies of her own household, in these misguided zealots who posing as friends give up the keys of the sacred citadel to her opponents, and think that thus they are jealous for her honour and their Master's and do God service. Salvation has no meaning, unless it means the Cross. And we empty the Cross of all content, when we violate its first principles and take away its "offence" and transform or degrade it into a matter of compromise or conscience or self-seeking. Christ came just to offer up in a daily offering, of which Calvary was but the last link or term, His Life for others. And the assertion that He ever broke or stained this glorious service of Self-immolation by a piece of common jugglery and by making Himself invisible, displays a singular fatuity and a startling ignorance of His work. In uncanonical books we do find such acts attributed to Him, and the stigma stamps them at once as uninspired. But from Revelation we expect and we receive a very different testimony. There is no congruity between such puerile exhibitions of power and the attested conduct of our Lord. The miracle-mongers of this kind and the Divine Sufferer, who felt the extremes of hunger and thirst and labour and weariness, and sorrow and pain, have no common ground and no common measure. But, it may be urged as a...
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