The Doctrine Of The Incarnation Of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Excerpt from The Doctrine of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in Its Relation to Mankind and to the Church The Personal Oneness of Godhead and Manhood in Christ, not less essential to 11 is office than the reality of each nature. The reality of Christ's two natures assailed in the fifth Century - His Godhead by the Nestorians - His Manhood by the Eutychians. Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon. Error of Nestorius to deny that the Son Of Mary was truly God. By denying the distinction between nature and personality, lie excluded the possibility of an union between God and man. This union practically testified by the Holy Communion. The Hypostatical union, the real presence in one person of two distinct natures, Godhead and Manhood. The Personality of Christ lies in the former. But an intimate connexion obtains between His two natures. From which connexion comes the ennobling of humanity. Effect which one nature produced upon the other. The exaltation which Christ bestowed upon man's nature, as God, by His Incarnation, distinct from that which, as man, He procured for it by His Obedience. The exaltation of Manhood in the Incarnation limited only by the conditions of the Created nature. To omit this limitation, as done by Eutyches, entails the very same result, which was arrived at by Nestorius - the denial of a true union between God and man. For lie could not be the representative of man, if Manhood was swallowed up in Godhead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"The Book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David." Thus does the later volume of revelation usher in the advent of Him on whom its mysteries and blessings are dependent. The gospel, like the Church's year, begins with the coming of the Son of God in the flesh. And so is it with the first placed of the epistles. It begins by declaring that the gospel of God concerns "His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power." Thus personal is the dispensation of the gospel. The desire of the present writer, as being bound byeducation and hereditary attachment to those evangelical principles in which he was nurtured, to call attention to the external truths, on which the doctrines of grace are dependent. For it is no system of idle words which is made known by the holy Apostles, "concerning Jesus Christ Our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power."