Devotional Commentary on the Gospel Narrative
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ISBN13: 9780217465519
Paperback|9780217465519
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: He speaks of His own disciples partaking of it, in some sense, although not fully in the same sense that He did; and also connects it with an expression relative to the other Sacrament, Are ye able to drink of the Cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the Baptism that I am baptized with 8 ? And indeed as all suffering receives the blessing of the Gospel, as bringing us more near to the Cross and Passion of Christ, it may seem to partake of something like a Sacramental efficacy, on account of some secret connexion with our Lord's sufferings. For it is not humanity only which in Christ is brought into life- giving union with the Godhead, but especially suffering humanity. THE CUP OF AGONY Now as our Lord drew near unto Him His disciples in His agony, therefore we may be allowed to approach Him: but as it was only the favoured three, it shows the danger of our presuming to draw near to Him in His sorrows without suitable feeling of awe and humiliation. May we reverently venture to ask, what might have been the cause of this His agony of mind, and the cup which He desired might pass from Him 1 May it have been that as our Lord was to exhibit the most exquisite of bodily sufferings, so was He also to suffer the most exquisite of mental agonies; whereby it was shown that not in His body alone, but also in soul, He was perfect man 1 And that as He came to bear our sorrows, may it have been that He was to bear the heaviest of all, the indefinable depression of mental anguish and despondency? Or may it have 9 Matt. xx. 22. See Ministry, 3rd Tear, p. 471. been from the approach of the powers of darkness, for this was their hour: and that they were now permitted to afflict His pure and righteous Soul, as on the following day His pure and righteous Body: and that wi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217465519 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021746551X |
| Weight | 1.12 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.77 In |
| List Price | $25.04 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 346 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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