Unitarian Affirmations Volume 3; Seven Discourses Given in Washington (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...Because it was such a stupendous fact; so stupendous, it must have been, when it first came really upon his followers, that this Jesus with whom they had been going about was verily Almighty God; and so stupendous to the Jews, so utterly contrary to all their preconceived ideas. If it were indeed so, and if this great news of Christ having been God was to be henceforth, as it has been represented, the one thing which it is most important for Christians to believe, then all the more we must expect to find it very clearly and emphatically proclaimed. Yet do we find it so? Why, look at the great occasions which have been recorded for us, on which the apostles gave, not some passing allusion to the gospel, but a great, marked, emphatic proclamation of it. On all those occasions they speak of their Master, but how? Take that great preaching on the day of Pentecost (Acts ii.). It is simply "Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you." Take that solemn setting forth of Christ by Paul at Antioch, occupying nearly a whole chapter (Acts xiii.), and how does that long address wind up?" Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins." Listen to Paul, as, at Athens, he stands before the philosophers. There was nothing in their minds to make " great caution" necessary: there was every reason why, if Christ were God, he should have so proclaimed him; nay, the very way was opened by his having found that "altar to the unknown God." But that" unknown God " whom he declared to them was simply the one Almighty; and, when he comes to speak of Christ, it is simply to say that the Almighty "hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world by ...