The herald., 1895-02-24

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lancing, and | doubt if they knew what
sort OF Gospel was offered, whether they
would want it.
| quote from two books-one written by
the gentleman referred to, the other the
Prayer Book whose contents he swore to
teach faithfully.
In this book, which is entitled The Broad
Church, is a chapter with the heading,
is Jesus God Incarnate!"
The gentleman. clergyman who has
sworn to teach the old gospel as this
church has received the same, answered
:" Yes and no Then he goes on to ex-
plain his thesis
Do you believe that Jesus Christ was
GOd?' The answer to that question is
yes and no. believe that in some
full and sufficient sense Jesus Christ was
bona fide representative, and an essential
incarnation OF God-Ycs.''
do you believe - he goes on, ''that the
Great God ghty--the Creator of the
ends of the earth-the High and Holy One
that inhabiteth eternity, came down and
was born OF a woman about 2O00 years ago
that He walked about Galilee-that no
one took much notice of him for thirty
years, that He then got into difficulties
with that the local police at Jerusalem that
the Roman soldiers-so many mere invisi
bic specks OF dust on the surface OF our
small glcbe--caught none other than the
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cruelty with rods, spat upon Him, and at
last cruciiied Him ON Calyary-do you be-
lievc this?
The gentleman answers Surely not
that.
Let us resolve this to its simplest terms
Jesus Christ was not God Almighty.
Some sort of divinity the writer may
ascribe to Him, but whether it is 'as this
church has received" " | leave you to de-
eide.
quote from the Prayer Book every priest
swears to teach THE Son, which is the
word OF the Father, begotten from the
everlasting of the Father the very and
eternal God and of one substance with
the Father, took man is nature in the womb
OF the blessed Virgin of her substance; so
that the two whole perfect natures, that
is to say, the Godhead and the man
hood were joined together in one person,
never to be divided, whereof is one Christ
very God and very man who truly suffer-
ed, was crucitied, dead and buried, to
reconcile His Father to us and to
be crucifed not only for our original
guilt but also Tor the actual sins of men,"
Now this last quotation, this prayer
book quotation, resolved to its lowest terms
in Mr.. Haweis' words reads thus:
The Great God Almighty, the Creator
of the ends of the earth-the high and
mighty one that inhabiteth eternity, did
come down and was born of woman about
2000 years ago-that He walked about Cali
lee-that little was heard of Him for
thirty years, that the authorities of Jeru-
asalem, not their mnions-whether they
were the local police as this writer flip
PANTY puts it, or not, that the Roman
soldiers-so many invisible specks of
dust on the surface of our small
globe---did seize none other than the
Great God Almighty Himself did
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cruelty Him on Calvary for your sins
and mine and for love Of this man who
was this sworn priest is denying Him.
There is very good instance of this
process of shaving down old truths in a
book recently published on "the Theology
of Phillips Brooks" The book starts
out very plausibly, very beautifully, in
man would read it through without fall
tering, so ingeniously is it put. But as
we read it over certain pages catch the
eye, and we begin to think that Renan
could not have been more Numerically
opposed to the old truths of Christianity
than is this book.
Speaking of our Divine Lord, it says:
He is not God plus man, nor man
raised to God He is the son of God
divine or human, according as we see
Him. His divinity is like the brilliance
of the jewel of an integral part of His
perfect human lie.
Divine or human, according as we see
HIM. e., His divinity or His hui
manity depe nds upon our minds His
divinity is not objective; as we see
Him, so He is!
And if we decide to see His divinity,
we see it, in the words of the writer, 'as
a part of His perfect human life. +" And
this is what they call believing that
Christ is God. But let us trace one turn
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do not pull our Lord down from His di-
vinity-ah, no; that is a clumsy process
used by the Unitarian, so they say, their
method is more polished-they raise us
all to gods.
AS this gentleman cheerfully puts it,
man is by nature, in virtue of his es
sential humanity, made in the image of
God and partaker of the life of tho Eter-
nal Word. SO that there is a sense in
which the words of the Nicene Greed
apply to humanity-God of Gods, Light
OF Light very God begotten, not made
of one substance with the Father"
But, my friends, ask yourselves, are
that you-or rather do you feel that your
is II god?
Does this fill out satisfactorily your
of the incarnation?
Now, there can be no question what
the Anglican Church teaches. There is
no question that she teaches distinctly
the ancient Catholic faith. This the
Pastoral which l read two Sun
days since explicitly affirms. There is in
volved in this very serious question of
ethics. In every day business of life
man may not lie, man may not steal
a man may not swear falsely and go un-
punished.
man who is a traitor to his country
is Justly execrated. And wherein is
the oath taken at God S altar less binding
than a promise or oath to man?
To appreciate the immortality of the
thing we have only to transfer it to the
ethics of trade and civil and domestic
life.
1T is no more legitimate" says
Bishop Seymour, for the candidate for
holy orders to gain his position as deacon,
priest or bishop, by putting his own pri-
vate meaning on the creeds, the offices
and the ordinal than it is for the sharp
man of business to outwit his neighbor in
bargain"
The terms liberality and liberalism
are to be differentiated. We may be
broad in our culture, broad in our char
ty, broad in uniting with men in social,
moral and political reform, but liberalism
IN matters OF faith is a synonym for no
faith at all.
The way of faith is the straight and mar
row way OF the Bible OF the Catholic ira
litlon. 1t is not the way of the world:
it is not the way of our age.
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hear often and often as an argument
against Christian truths.
And il we decide to see His divinity,
we see it in the words of the writer ''as |
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