Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-11-26
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An Outline Of the Great Plan of Redemn-
ton.

AS the doctrine of "Christ crunci-
fed was toolishness TO the Greeks" in
the days OF the Apostles, so in these
days OF happy enlig htenment is the
same doctrine foolishness TO those who
Ito our sorrow. look only uithin their
heads TO find what must necessarily
exist without their heads as if the
objective truth exists only within the
subjective mind, which is no more the
case than thai material objects. be-
cause seen By the physical eye do not
exist outside of the eye thai sees them
The absurdity in both propositions is
the same. The truth az il is in Je.
sus" exists without us, objective. upon
which tie eye of the mind can look.
as truly as can the eye Of tho body
rest upon surrounding objects. This
truth has been giUen to us, brought
from Heaven by Him "who hath
brought life and immortality to light"
The credentials OF His mission from
Heaven were miracles written with
the finger of God Himself. And to
tn ose o. us who are so fortunate as to
perceive the true character of our
Lords credentials, that they were in
deed written by the finger of the AIS
mighty, the following will only APP
pear to be toolishness, as they find it
| TO be variant from that which is re-
vealed TO us in the Bible:
And let me here premise that the
apparent absurditics of this our outline
| belong TO the evidence we have that
| Christ hath risen from the dead If
there IS nothing Objectionable in this
evidence, then there is none in this
outline. Since this. the central mir
acle, proves the Bible to be the word
of God, from which alone we obtain
the following
Adam was in one sense the repre-
sentative of all mankind, as is implied
by this Scripture 'ln Adam all die.
By man cam DEATH Cor. XIV
! ''For by one mans disobedience many
were made sinner" -Romans, tx.
| Through disobedience sin was infused
into Adam which has been transmit
ted unto all men. Adam sin entails
ed its consequences upon all mankind.
And as Christ was the Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world,
from Adams standpoint in time the
Omniscient eye looked forward upon
sinful mankind us upon united whole
AS dpon one man and in design did
then provide way by which they
could escape the eternal consequence
of sin, which design was partially
accomplished when the Lamb ofGod
which taketh away the sin of the
world" was actually slain; only par
italy accomplished; and to learn ,chdt
part, we must first learn the tUofoId
consequence of Adams sin: first, the
displeasure of God against mankind,
who, now sinful, have by this very
fact forfeited His love-Who by His
transcendant holiness cannot possibly
love anything sinful so first, God was
turned away from man. Secondly,
man through the infusion of sin into
his soul, which has dominion over his
will, is turned away from God. The
one, viz God, through displeasure de-
parted from man. The other, viz
man. through the power Of sin depart
ed from God. Thus was the relation
of mutual good will changed into one
of mutual i'll will-not that God is ca
pable offeelinq i'll will; but we use this
word as that which best expresses
that relation which God must neces>
sarily hold to sinful man because of
His eternal justice. "6ood will to-
wards men" was sung by anticipation
by tho Angelic choir at the birth of
Christ, Whose sufferings unto death
accomplished the one part of Gods
design or plan of mans restoration
unto His favor and love. The death
of Christ turned God to mankind, as
He was before Adam sinned; that is,
unto all who believe that Christ has
done this great thing by His sacrifice
upon the cross, and live the life re-
CURED This is one part of the two
fold consequence Of Adams sin an
done. The other is also to be undone
before Gods whole plan is accom-.
plished; which other part is the re-
| turn OF man unto God. The bright
beams of Gods favor and love will
now fall upon all who return unto
Him. How is this other part of the
twofold consequence of Adams sin
undone i? Since it consists of mans
being by nature under the the power
of sin; therefore this second part in
the great plan is effected when man
is delivered from this power. And
this is done by the gracious influence
of the Holy Spirit. The gift of which
was purchased for us by the Captain
of our salvation with sufferings. Be-
sides reconc ling God unto man by
His death, He also purchased by the
same death the gift of the Holy Spi-
rit, by whose agency man is turned
unto God. And thus is Jesus Christ
our Redeemcr from the wrath of God,
and from the power of sin. And thus
is the twofold consequence OF Adams
sin undone by Christ the second Ad-
am. BY deliverance from the pow
er of sin spoken of above we are to
understand the overpowering OF that
dominion which sin has over the ,0lttS
of the unconverted, or rather unturn>
ed, with whom while turned to God,
to sin, ia to act contrary to the will
The death ofsChrist, both God and
man, one per on, removed from be-
fore the mercy seat OF Heaven, the
cloud of Gods angry displeasure
placed there by the sin of mankind in
their representative, Adam, aud then
the bright beams of Gods favor and
love burst forth upon the earth, mans
abode but these beams are debarred
by the clouds of sinfulness which sin
has also placed over the soul of man;
which clouds are dispeiled by the in
fuence Of the Holy Spirit sent down
from Heaven by Christ-"But if | de.
part | will send him unto YOU
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