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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: is written; and may the Holy Spirit so reveal to us the truth of Christ, that we may rejoice in possessing for ourselves, and being instrumental in communicating to others, the salvation achieved for us by Him.'1 CHAPTER III. THE PERSON OF THE ATONER. Christ is the sum and substance of Christianity. They are so intimately related to one another, that it is impossible to entertain correct ideas of the latter and have erroneous views of the former. Sadly deficient views of the plan of mercy revealed in the Gospel may be found in a mind alongside comparatively correct thoughts of the person of Jesus, but the reverse of this is impossible. In His person there lay in germ all the principles and truths, afterwards fully made known, on which the Church of God is founded, and by which souls are blessed. Hor far, then, from thetruth are such statements as that ' the value of the Gospel does not depend in any degree on the idea which we entertain of Christ.' The history of the Church and its controversies is an array of incontrovertible facts which prove the very opposite. All Christian doctrines are modified to the core by the views which are held as to who and what Jesus Christ really is. This renders it necessary, before proceeding further, to consider the question, Who is Jesus Christ as to personality and nature ? The worker must be understood before his work can even be looked at as it should. This necessitates a brief survey of the Scriptural representations of the founder of the Christian religion. 1 Sacrifice: or Pardon and Purity, p. 6. 1. The first and simplest idea which can be formed of Jesus Christ, from the study of the records of His life, is that He was a man, properly human. There are no Docette in this century who think that Christ's body was a mere semblance...
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