PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Great Texts of the Bible — Volume 16
James Hastings · 185,008 words · 189 reading sections
Section 181
* R. J, Drummond, Faith's Certainties, 145. GAL, VI. 14 473 get rid of the consciousness of guilt, to atone for sin, and to effect a perfect restoration to Divine favour — in short, everything regarding the nature of God and His designs which glimmered as a ray of light here and there in this darkness obtains in Chri…
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^ Natural and supernatural constitute a universal order and an everyday process. It is by such a path, beginning in the lowest forms of nature, that Bushnell finds his way up to holiness as God's last end ; and when that is gained, it will be seen that it is the culmination of a process that embraces all the stages of …
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Christ liveth in me." And inasmuch as, like his dear Lord, he had been uplifted into the higher life of union with the Divine on the cross of suffering, as he was conscious that what was foreshadowed for all in the sacrifice and glorification of the human nature of our Lord was being accomplished in himself, he could a…
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2 COR. & GAL, — 31 482 THE MARKS OF JESUS appropriate, if referred to the second of these classes. Such a practice at all events cannot have been unknown in a country which was the home of the worship of Cybele. A temple slave is mentioned in a Galatian inscription. The brands of which the Apostle speaks were doubtle…
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484 THE MARKS OF JESUS ourselves than even our character is — a subtle change wrought upon the very personality by the Cross of Christ, as the marks of the Cross were printed upon St. Francis of Assisi in the familiar incident of the stigmata. In the Bible there are such references as the mark of Cain; the mark of Eze…
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486 THE MARKS OF JESUS outward but inward, not physical but spiritual. It was th© Apostle Paul himself who said, " If any man hath not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his." And in St. Paul's own case, the wounds he bore, while in some respects the most striking, were not the deepest and most convincing " marks " o…
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As in the Christ, though men beheld no beauty — Only the marks of suffering and care, God, from the first, beheld His own bright image Eejoicing in the revelation fair. So, where His children, looking on each other. See forms and faces marred by pain and woe, God, looking on the depths and not the surface, Sees oftent…
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^ In all art and literature, in every great and new creation, the impulse seems to lie in a new and vivid experience which makes a new knowledge. The man who was branded " FVG.," like the woman in Hawthorne's novel who wore the scarlet letter or the man who did not, knew something of those letters of the alphabet in qu…
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GAL. VI. 17 493 Jesus, whose body told and tells of His surrender to His Father, comes to us. And with those hands eagerly outstretched, and eyes beaming with the earnestness of His great passion for men. He says, "Yoke up with Me. Let Me have the control of all your splendid powers, in carrying out our Father's will …
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.