The Athanasian Creed, 6 Expository Addresses (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.1885 Excerpt: ... ADDRESS IV. In the last Address we concluded our consideration of the teaching of the Athanasian Creed on the first great doctrine of which it treats, that of the Holy Trinity. With the 29th verse we enter upon its teaching on the second great doctrine, the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. This portion of the Creed, which is to be the subject of to-day's Address, extends from the 29th to the 37th verse. I will now ask you to consider these verses with me in their relation to the errors against which they were chiefly directed, leaving for the next Address the reconsideration of the last four verses in their relation to two very serious forms of heresy, which do not seem to be directly aimed at by them, but to which they proved providentially to be most applicable. Read verses 29, 30: "Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. "For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man." "Furthermore," as the next subject of supreme importance, it is necessary for those who would be in a state of salvation now and hereafter, to believe rightly what the Scripture and the Church teach concerning the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, --concerning that which resulted, when the Second Person of the Holy Trinity became man and appeared amongst us, or, as St. John expresses it, when "the Word was made flesh." What then is the right faith which we are to believe and confess concerning our dear Lord and Master, who speaks of Himself as both the " Son of God" and the "Son of man?" And may God help us all to feel the reverence with which such a subject should be approached, and keep us from ever regarding these statements of th...