(3) His are the intimations of God derived through conscience and intuition. Left to himself he has no solid ground of confidence in any estimate he may form. The only-begotten of the Father.2. That captive sinners might be redeemed. To show God. The Incarnation shows us its grand potentialities, and throws upon it a thousandfold stronger light than Unitarlanism possibly can. There was nothing in His immaculate purity, nothing in His essential rectitude, or in His inviolable adherence to justice, that dictated a dispensation of mercy. He effects a great deliverance, and bestows an infinite wisdom. or what profit is there of the Incarnation? But we can only surrender ourselves to its power when we admit that it is the life of the Word made flesh. On the way he had seen the Bavarians, seen villages burned with petroleum, and he came to imprison himself in Paris. If sin were a trivial affair God would not have so humbled Himself.II. God Himself. He dwelt not invisibly or obscurely. The acceptance of this doctrine draws towards Christ; its rejection separates from Him by an impassable gulf? He took our human nature. He continues to reveal to the loving earnest gaze His glory, "the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father."(J. The moral beauty of which mankind is capable appeared in Jesus as it never appeared before or since. And DWELT.1. )Christ clothed in human fleshThe pure Godhead is terrible to behold; we could not see it and live; but clothing Himself with our flesh, makes the Divine nature more amiable and delightful to us. Christ possessed tenacity of purpose in an extraordinary degree. And both evermore abide in Him. Being made flesh, all flesh may come to him to present their request.3. 18).2. At His Transfiguration.4. Creation is part of His handiwork, as the Revealer of God. THE ANALOGY between those two Incarnations.1. J. Vaughan, M. A.1. Then the Christian will be like Him, for he will see Him as He is.2. What flesh then? Sir Joshua Reynolds says that when he visited Italy to make the acquaintance of the celebrated masterpieces, he was much cast down. He lived on earth for a time, just as a man might live. There are many who are loving but not faithful; many sternly honest, but not kind. How can we behold?1. Denton, M. It is only a small satellite of the sun while the sun is but one of thousands of stars which are moving round some undiscovered centre. It was inevitable that the possibility of the Incarnation should be questioned; but what is man but a sample, at an immeasurably lower level of a union of two totally different substances, one material, the other immaterial, under the control of a single human personality? (2) Hence for all that men have learned from the universe they have been indebted to the Word. Christ took a complete and perfect soul and body that He might heal the whole nature of that sin which had infected every member and faculty. And so consequently to qualify and prepare Him for a full discharge of His Mediatorship. Offer man a Saviour crowned with visible power, or who shall secure wealth or pleasure, who would not acknowledge Him? To have taken the nature of angels — to have appeared on earth in the pomp of majesty had been a humiliation.IV. (4) In the day of conversion, the believer experiences His redemption. Negatively. A. They leave the soul with vague, restless desires after a more perfect acquaintance. Not by surrounding influences. We get some person who knows Hebrew, but who also knows English, and he teaches us. The Incarnation, then, was but the beginning of a great career which is still in progress. A. But as soon as I say "John," then you know the word I was thinking of. In order that suffering on behalf of others should indicate kindness it must be voluntary. Negatively. J. Vaughan, M. A.1. When the Greeks had an interview with Him.5. Lewis. It is more for Him to be made than to make many worlds.3. The stormy ages will be calmed only because a Divine voice has said " Peace be still." This was the problem. Not that Divine manifestations began at the Advent. But what is man that He should be made him, or the Son of man that He should take His nature upon Him?4. M. Taylor, D. D.)Christ, the wordD. Let us resort to it to obtain grace to help in time of need.3. (3) What flesh afterward? The ability to appeal to the historic facts concerning the life of our Lord is the strongest confirmation of the truth of our religious instincts. See to what a height God intends to build up the happiness of man in that He has laid the foundation so deep in the Incarnation of His Son.8. (1) Full of grace. It was not a transcient manifestation such as the Buddhist incarnation or Hindoo avatar; not God coming down in the likeness of men for a moment or two; but so becoming us, He ceased to be the Word. The life of God appears on the earth not only harmonized, but perfectly blended with the life of man. He that built repaired. A difficult character to understand fully, for its beauty only grows upon us by degrees. The inward motion of the mind taketh into it a natural body of air, and so becometh vocal; it is not changed into it, the Word remaineth still as it was, yet they two become one voice.IV. "Christ did not gain one perfection more by becoming man, nor could He lose anything of what He possessed as God. It should ever be their aim to be "full of grace," to cherish a kind and generous disposition to others. Andrews. From the means adopted to secure the design of His mission. It took God longer time, perhaps greater pains, to beget Christ in the human mind than to beget Him in the Virgin's womb. "Whoso layeth his hand on a human body toucheth heaven," said Novalis and Carlyle. He gave His only begotten son; what more could He do?(J. Garbett, M. A.I. )An argument for the IncarnationW. LET US ATTEMPT AN IMPROVEMENT OF OUR SUBJECT.1. C. Jones, D. D.)Beholding the glory of ChristThough the Israelites were not able to look on the face of Moses, we saw the glory of the only-begotten. True, we do cherish very humble views of it; but humble views are not low views. Experience.3. If made, then made the most complete thing of all that ever He had made. His family is His body, and His body is His bride, and His bride is His Church; and He lives in the members. THE NAME BY WHICH OUR LORD IS DESCRIBED.1. Embrace this truth and it is not hard to understand how His death on Calvary availed for the world's redemption. By the side of this all other fatherhoods are types and figures.3. FEELINGS AND KNOWLEDGE, heart and intellect, in perfect accord. Where is the roll of the missionaries of Unitarianism? That is to say, the Divine laid hold of the human in such a way as to make the human, so far as it could be made, a true image and reflection of itself. "All things were made by Him." But the grace of His heart was not expended by its earthly efforts; after He ascended to glory, He manifested in an equal degree the forbearing kindness of His heart, the distinguishing sovereignty of His grace. He was with God, and was God. 1. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.)The influence of Christ's grace and truth upon artJ. TO THE PURPOSES OF GOD. THE PERSON ASSUMING. What responsibilities!(Bp. Both are manifestations of God.II. First the inorganic and inanimate world; then the living being; then the self-conscious life of man. How then do we come to know Hebrew? I. "By their fruit ye shall know them" — systems as well as men, faiths as well as trees.(J. Denton, M. A. J. Vaughan, M. This glory is that to which man, in his fallen condition, is most blind. See the Word made flesh.(H. The parts take their due proportions.IV. At His Transfiguration.4. If He abhor not the flesh: of the spirit there will be no question.2. THE DOCTRINE OR THE FACT HOLDS A LIKE CENTRAL AND INCLUSIVE POSITION IN HOLY SCRIPTURE. He came but of an errand, to sojourn till He had done it, and being done He laid His tabernacle aside.3. THAT THE GOD-MAN WAS WILLING TO SUFFER FOR OUR SALVATION. The one may become a curse to man, the other must be a blessing. Both result from Divine interposition.2. THE DOCTRINE OR THE FACT HOLDS A LIKE CENTRAL AND INCLUSIVE POSITION IN HOLY SCRIPTURE. THE NAME BY WHICH OUR LORD IS DESCRIBED.1. (2) Grace and truth are blended. What began in the past eternity proceeds in the eternity to come, and to "the Word" there is but one eternity. H. It might be inconsistent with the good of the denizens of the unseen world if their disobedience had been left unpunished. TO ILLUSTRATE THE GRACIOUS CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST. (4) All the truth that man has ever learned has been through Him who is the True Light that enlighteneth every man.II. Infer the incomparable sweetness of Christianity that shows such a foundation for the sinner's hope.5. Howat. (1) That He was God. "Matter is essentially evil," said the Greek philosopher. The other evangelists give us the facts, St. John the soul beneath the facts. And this impression is deepened by the vicissitudes to which men are exposed, and the cheapness of human life. But as soon as I say "John," then you know the word I was thinking of. It is no longer possible; we are reminded to think of this earth as the centre for whose benefit all else exists. Now it preaches that man is under law to an extent which makes it idle to speak of forgiveness. What flesh? The grace is truthful grace; not in fiction, fancy, to be hoped for or dreamed of; but grace, every atom of which is fact, redemption which does redeem, pardon which does blot out sin, renewal which actually regenerates. THE INCARNATION OF THE SON OF GOD PLAINLY ASSERTED.1. The one occurred without man's choice, the other requires his seeking.(D. The appropriateness of the term. It is THE BIRTHDAY OF CHRIST. Christ taught it and practised it. Is there any way in which this dual relationship can be brought into conspicuous pre-eminence? It required that His Godhead should be manifested under certain limitations. Who is that Teacher? This was the problem. They have but one and the same nature and will; but in Christ there are two natures and wills. Nature does not disclose this manifestation of love. That is marked by a tone of serious, disheartened scepticism. God's beneficence has in it heart-sorrow and willingness to endure grief for love's sake. In Him the immeasurable grace of God is treasured, up; and all truth about God and Divine things hath been declared by Him.2. )Beholding Christ's gloryJ. After man had fallen He might have refused to repair the injury. THE INCARNATION as a mark of love and tenderness HAS SOMETHING STRIKING ABOUT IT and affecting to the heart. (2) How born? THAT THE GOD-MAN WAS WILLING TO SUFFER FOR OUR SALVATION. )The glory of ChristA. The Incarnation is based upon the ultimate fact that God is love. Grace, too, as opposed to the rigour, threats, and curses of the law; and truth as set against the shadows and ceremonies of the law. The Old Testament is a congruous body of doctrine culminating in Christ; the New Testament is a coherent body of doctrine culminating around the Person of Christ. The Greek sought mind in all things; taught by Christ, the Christian seeks a heart.IV. Yes, but Christ corroborates the testimony of our moral nature. That the empire of Satan might be ruined.6. Voices of audible command or promise spoken perpetually from heaven to earth would have formed a revelation as grotesque as ineffectual.4. As the life of God is in Christ, we share in it by being united to Christ. Of the motive for which He undertook His redeeming work.3. The same principle determines our relations with . In a palace, cradle of ivory, robes of estate! It was a custom of old among the shepherds, they were wont to clothe themselves with sheep-skins, to be more pleasing to the sheep; so Christ clothed Himself with our flesh, that the Divine nature may be more pleasing to us. If what the impugners say is true, Christianity is an imposture and Christ a deceiver. After man had fallen He might have refused to repair the injury. TO THE IRRELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF THE AGE. The inward motion of the mind taketh into it a natural body of air, and so becometh vocal; it is not changed into it, the Word remaineth still as it was, yet they two become one voice.IV. This is the confession of friends and foes of His own day and ours. Garbett, M. A.I. Flesh in Hebrew is the same for good tidings, suggesting that some incarnation should be good news for the world. THE NAME BY WHICH OUR LORD IS DESCRIBED.1. When Christ assumed our nature it was —(1) Not united consubstantially as the Three Persons in the Godhead are united. He is the only perfect Man who has ever trod this earth. We learn the amazing condescension of the Saviour. What He is, He will make us.(A. (3) Others to the phrase, "the Word of the Lord came upon him," in the prophets, understanding by that not an influence or a communication, but a person. It is Christ who is still doing the evangelization of the world. A. "Rejoice in the Lord alway." — He moves before our vision in the form of a man; we look inquiringly and affectionately, and then we penetrate the outward guise and behold the inner splendour. A word of continuance. R. Howat.I am thinking of a word. The theology taught by the Incarnation is the world's hope.(J. The story of their lives is comparatively simple, having strength for a foundation. Jesus offers grace. For my own sake, and for yours, I dare not do this. The man who worships the Lord Jesus as God, and gives Him the homage of his heart is a Christian, although he may not accept the Athanasian statement. His family is His body, and His body is His bride, and His bride is His Church; and He lives in the members. Christ not only watches His family from above, He dwells and works within it. The latter brings sunshine to the soul and ever advancing blessedness.2. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.)Lessons of the IncarnationJ. The incarnate life of Christ stands in close relation to the development of Christian character. There is now not a single break in the chain of existence. Thomas, D. D.(text in conjunction with Ephesians 3:17): — There are two births of Christ — one unto the world, the other into the soul. A redemption by sacrifice must depend on the value of the victim sacrificed; human sacrifices would contravene all the teachings of the Divine economy touching the sanctity of human life, and of the insufficiency of the sacrifice of brutes, apart from their typical sense, the religious history of the world affords abundant evidence. If one of the four gospel writers was an alcoholic, my money's on John. There was nothing in His immaculate purity, nothing in His essential rectitude, or in His inviolable adherence to justice, that dictated a dispensation of mercy. And DWELT.1. In the moment of creation He became to man the mysterious basis of that strong mysterious thing which we call life; the indwelling light, through whose guidance and illumination man might know God, and become like God. And both evermore abide in Him. He was known by this name in the Jewish Church long before His advent.2. What is said about the Word. Flavel.I. Four thousand years were needed to accomplish the former; but the instant it was brought to pass, "God sent forth His Son into the world, made of a woman, made under the law."(J. But He was as remarkable for His firmness. He seeth us daily in himself. This union of Deity and humanity conditioned both.1. He gazed steadfastly and could not behold their glory. TO MAN'S PLACE IS THE SCALE OF BEING: correcting the depreciation of man by science and the exaggerated dignity conferred upon him by Pantheism. "The Word became flesh": such is St. John's statement. The concourse and co-operation of each nature to His mediatory works, for in them He acts according to both natures. (1)The Author of creation. Let us pitch our tents around this central tabernacle, as the Israelites did round theirs.2. (2)Omniscience (John 21:17). The incarnation took place between these utterances.2. The earth was not ready. Of His endurance and perseverance.5. Men have misconceived and misstated the Incarnation; that two persons were united in Christ instead of two natures in His single person; that the infinite Being was confined within the finate nature which He assumed; that God ceased to be really Himself; that human nature was annihilated by its union with Deity. The only-begotten of the Father.2. Yes, but Christ corroborates the testimony of our moral nature. It is the comprehensive truth of revelation. Culross, D. D.)The character of JesusJ. The Incarnation is based upon the ultimate fact that God is love. Hence the whole nature is denominated by that part, and called flesh.3. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.)Jesus Christ the fountain of GraceS. "Beheld His glory": not heard or read of. The life of God appears on the earth not only harmonized, but perfectly blended with the life of man. The stormy ages will be calmed only because a Divine voice has said " Peace be still." What privilege! J. Joscelyne, M. His PERFECT WISDOM, which spake as never man spake.IV. The sense of guilt and longing for reconciliation may have produced these myths. Certainly it would be in the highest degree unnatural and incredible and monstrous, that the Word should become man, if that Word were not, by original constitution, so intimately related to man, But once see the spiritual constitution of man in this living and life-giving Word of God, as John and Paul saw it, and the Incarnation becomes not only unnatural, but, in the highest sense of the word, natural; not merely not incredible, but eminently credible, because so entirely in accordance with man's needs, and with God's original constitution of human nature. But so is that by which spirit and matter, mind and body combine in man. It is Christ who is still doing the evangelization of the world. A. The gracious character of the Saviour will aggravate the punishment of the finally impenitent.3. All, however, fall into place if He is the God-Man. Yes, but Christ corroborates the testimony of our moral nature. We, not one but many.3. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.)The difference between the Christian and the heathen incarnationsPrincipal Grant.The Greek popular incarnations were, in the main, personifications of natural phenomena. We could not tell what God's thoughts about us were until He showed us them in a way we could understand. The character of Christ can be transferred in its integrity to the Lord of Hosts without degrading the loftiest ideal of Him.(J. In Christ there is no defect either way. He was with God, and was God. Culross, D. D.It was fulness in presence of the world's immeasurable need; fulness that stood in contrast with the emptiness of men. Conclusion: Jesus is a perfect Saviour — perfect in His power to save, being able to save to the uttermost; perfect in His willingness to save, declaring that whosoever cometh unto Him, He will in no wise cast out; perfect in His sympathy, knowing our frame, remembering that we are dust, and declaring that He will carry the lambs in His arm, and deal with peculiar kindness with those in special trials; perfect in His wisdom, knowing His sheep and knowing the way that they take; perfect in His faithfulness, being the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, and promising never to leave nor forsake His own disciples. (4) In the day of conversion, the believer experiences His redemption. God could not travel faster than the conditions of humanity admitted. M. Taylor, D. D.)Christ, the wordD. — He moves before our vision in the form of a man; we look inquiringly and affectionately, and then we penetrate the outward guise and behold the inner splendour. What would be the use of sending earlier when the world was not prepared to receive Him? We may see Him, may read about Him, but before we can know Him we must get help from some one who knows Jesus Christ and also knows us. Creation is not a dead level, but an ascending series. In like manner Christ, who is "the brightness of the Father's glory," the true Shechinah, tabernacled among us. The soundest, shortest argument for the Being of God is Christ. And He who could bring together matter and Spirit in man might surely raise both matter and spirit to union with His own Divinity under the control of His eternal Person. (3) What flesh afterward? The sense of guilt and longing for reconciliation may have produced these myths. Because he disclosed all God's counsel — the Word effective.3. II. It teaches or implies —I. He who is the fount of all being, is also the light of man's being, the illumination of reason and conscience, the son of his soul. Huntington.There was an end sought; by what means should it be reached? Here is a man who, before he became a criminal, threaded his way unnoticed through the crowd; but put upon his trial for his life he becomes a centre of universal interest. Potences perfectly novel in the history of the world exert their subtle influence; the human and the Divine, the grace and the truth, are so closely associated, that not at once do we grasp the radical idea, and perceive its subdued, tempered beauty. Aristotle's and Plato's triads, again were simply psychological. The Word was MADE flesh.1. There, in those pages, the inward voice of conscience becomes an outward voice also; the latter attested by the former, the former cleared and deepened and intensified by the latter. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.Inasmuch as God is unchangeable, and the love exhibited in Bethlehem was in Him from days of old, I make bold to affirm that He embraced the first opportunity to work out the redemption of the race. M'Cheyne. He was dependent upon others for His rest and food. Garbett, M. A.I. It shows the dignity of the human body. Love, compassion, justice, truth. In Christ there is no defect either way. After man had fallen He might have refused to repair the injury. It intimates His condition. "Things" first; then, "life": then, "light"; that is, persons, existence, self-conscious, rational and moral. "This was compassion like a God."3. But the grace of His heart was not expended by its earthly efforts; after He ascended to glory, He manifested in an equal degree the forbearing kindness of His heart, the distinguishing sovereignty of His grace. His benevolent mind contemplated a world lost and ruined by sin; a whole race of creatures who were in rebellion against God, and exposed to the penalties of a just and righteous law. God gave His Son, but that Son was one in heart and mind with Himself. So strong was His kindness, so intense His love, so determined His compassion, that He submitted to the agonizing, the ignominious death of the cross, to accomplish the salvation of sinners. It teaches or implies —I. "Sin shall have no more dominion, etc."(b)Satan. The Incarnation, then, was but the beginning of a great career which is still in progress. By sight, and by touch, and by voice, says he, I became acquainted with a certain human life; a life, which had a peculiar charm, a special glory about it; and that glory I can only describe as the glory of a well-beloved and only son from a father. FLESH and IN US is used —1. His CHARACTER and life, and therefore open moral and spiritual eyes were needed to see it.III. From the creative Word St. John passes to the indwelling Light, that "true Light, which (as he says) lighteth every man." THE ASSUMPTION ITSELF. When the court of Olympus was constituted, the conviction — universal among the Indo-European peoples — that the gods could not be strangers to men, made it natural to believe that they came down to earth from time to time. Think of our Lord's life from this point of view, of putting such high and exceptional honour on our nature. "Christ did not gain one perfection more by becoming man, nor could He lose anything of what He possessed as God. Share. Nor does it matter that His life was lived on a small planet. At best they give a God for philosophers, for the intellect, not one who has influence over life, moulding and fashioning the heart.3. True, we do cherish very humble views of it; but humble views are not low views. Deny it, and the universe loses its unity and integrity; it is despoiled of much of its grandeur and poetry. TO RELIGIOUS COMMUNION. THEIR EXALTED PRIVILEGE. We, not one but many.3. Where, then, will you find this object if not in that Word which is God, and yet is distinct from Him. Patton. Christ had them pre-eminently.III. C. Jones, D. D.)Beholding the glory of ChristThough the Israelites were not able to look on the face of Moses, we saw the glory of the only-begotten. But then we might see and hear A word and yet not understand it. First the inorganic and inanimate world; then the living being; then the self-conscious life of man. If He abhor not the flesh: of the spirit there will be no question.2. Consider them together. THE DIGNIFIED CHARACTER WHO WAS MADE FLESH. TO THE FUNDAMENTALS OF RELIGION. M'Cheyne. Four thousand years were needed to accomplish the former; but the instant it was brought to pass, "God sent forth His Son into the world, made of a woman, made under the law."(J. Their sculpture exhibited a simplicity, a severity, a chaste grandeur which far outstrips all efforts of modern ages. The theology taught by the Incarnation is the world's hope.(J. Culross, D. D.Here is an answer to Solomon's wondering exclamation: "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? It shows the dignity of the human body. So the living heart of Christianity is supernatural. The incarnate life of Christ stands in close relation to the development of Christian character. But apart from Christianity nature also opens out another side to the matter. THIS ASSUMPTION OF OUR BODY BY CHRIST IS A PLEDGE OF ITS RESURRECTION, and such being the case, how we ought to reverence it!VIII. Only faith in the Incarnation can create missionaries. But man has desired this God-Man: He only has blessed the race. Rent and torn; crowned with thorns; crucified. SOME REASONS WHY THE SAVIOUR BECAME INCARNATE.1. Sin and suffering are inseparable, they say, and thus those who preached a gospel of love without law, now preach a gospel of law without love. ).The IncarnationPreacher's Analyist.I. By this reading, innumerable difficulties, which have given superfluous trouble, disappear. Thus the Tabernacle of God was with men, and He dwelt among us.(G. The diviner the life, the closer the inspection requisite to understand it. A. No one was ever more energetic in opposition to wickedness; but what strikes us more forcibly is His unprecedented meekness under wrong; and thus He originated a new type of goodness.V. "Who hath delivered us from the wrath to come. It is a Chapter on Christian service. LOOKING ONWARD, WITH THIS WARRANT, FROM OUR LORD'S ASCENSION, WE SEE THE INTERIOR PRINCIPLE OF HIS KINGDOM as it is set up among the nations and expands along the ages. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.In the life of Jesus we see —I. This is seen in His Incarnation; in His being made perfect through sufferings, so that He might be a sympathetic High Priest; in His life, words, and actions; in His death, as our substitute and representative; and in His union with His people. 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