The Mercersburg Review Volume 18 (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. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... God," as this is reached fully at last only in the face of His Son Jesus Christ (2 Cor. iv. 6). Christ thus is the end of all previous revelations, the absolute conclusion and fulfilment of what they were only in a partial, relative and more or less shadowy way. " God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son." That was the glorious issue to which all looked from the beginning. There the movement came to its full close. It could go no further. " The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath revealed Him." But how was it now that our Saviour, Jesus Christ, had made God known in this ultimate, absolute way, as He here speaks of having done, by His appearing among men in the flesh? What was the particular form and manner of the ministry by which He had finished the work He was sent into the world to do, and stood now prepared to return again through death to the glory which He had with the Father before His incarnation? One thing is clear; the ministry, the work done, was not in the way of any simply outward teaching. The common view by which revelation in general is made to resolve itself into religious doctrine, statements of truth supernaturally communicated and made known to men, is false and unsatisfactory everywhere; but most of all is it found to be so, just where the idea of revelation becomes absolutely complete in and through the presence of the Word made Flesh. Christ was not sent into the world to teach the truth as something external to Himself, to tell men doctrinally the things they needed to know concerning...