Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1832. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ture He endured aroused one wayward passion: the blessed Lamb of God was without spot. But as sufferings have been often esteemed by the wise and good as producing effects favourable unto our virtue, the chastisement which procured our peace may have been somewhat essential towards the purifying and perfecting the sinful flesh with which He did act in contact. Of the illustrious and conspicuous triumphs He obtained, when conflicting with the devil and the world, we are enabled to form some judgment from the relation of those who witnessed what He endured on many occasions of his harassed life, and particularly in the Garden of Gethsemane, and there is good ground to conclude that these were not the only enemies He was ordained to conquer, but that He was also destined to overcome their auxiliary, sinful flesh; for had He not done this, his triumph was incomplete; and the trials and sufferings He sustained in our polluted nature may have contributed towards its purification: for the great Captain of Salvation was made perfect through sufferings. It was not till He had by himself purged our sins--that is, when He had refined and cleansed our sinful nature by his union with it, (and to the attainment of which essential purpose his sufferings in the flesh appear, from the scriptural declarations quoted, to have materialy contributed,) that He was seated on the right-hand of the Majesty on high. (Heb. i. 3.) For sin God condemned sin in the flesh, not only to sustain the sufferings that worked towards its perfect purification, but also, for the various reasons we have already shown, as man He could not without the endurance of, completely glorify his Almighty Father; and likewise, as heretofore remarked, from the assertions of St. Paul, it was an act (on many other a...
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