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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: SERMON XLII. INCARNATION OF CHRIST. Romans Till 3.?God tending his own Son in the likeusu of sinful flesH. I HAVE, in several preceding discourses, endeavoured to settle the meaning of the phrase, God's own Son, used in this passage of the Scriptures. This was indispensably necessary, at the opening of all the observations, intended to be made concerning the doctrines of the Christian system. As these doctrines are truths partly unfolding to us the character and conduct of this wonderful person, and partly disclosing to us the consequences of his interference in the behalf of mankind; as his character, in a greater or less degree, affects every doctrine of what is appropriately called the Christian Religion; and as those, who set out with different views of his character, proceed farther and farther asunder, so as to form in the end entirely different systems of religious doctrine; it became indispensable, that this great point should, as far as possible, be fixed at the beginning. If the attempt to do this has been successful, in the degree which I have hoped, it will contribute not a little to settle on a firm foundation most of the doctrines, which remain to be investigated. My own views concerning them, it will, at least, contribute to explain. In this passage we are informed, that God sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. The meaning of this phrase, (the likeness of sinful flesh) will be obvious from similar phrases in Philippians ii. 7, 8, fie was made, or, as it is in the original, He existed, in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man. In ihcjirst of these phrases, the original word, ofAoiufuxri, is the same with that translated likeness, in the text. In the second, it is iywri; a term of a kindred signification, denoting form, or fash...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217806428 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217806422 |
| Weight | 1.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $32.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 474 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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