To be near unto God - pagina 240

alongside of him see God, but he shall see God in Christ. In the iinregenerate. sin has made the image of God unrecognizable. In Christ God gives his image in all its ifullness and perfect clearness. This was possible in our human nature, because the Son was the Image of the Father from all eternity, and as bj' the shadow of this Image our human nature was formed from the dust of the earth. He therefore who rests content with the revelation of God in nature, depressed as it is by the curse, or he who rests content with the revelation of God in the natural man, who is dead in sin, can not come to the true knowledge of God. but must of necessitv fall away into idolatry or false philosophy, ''No man knoweth the Father,

save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him" (Mat. 11:27). Christ therefore remains the center of our Divine worship, not only by what he spake, by what he did, or what he suffered, but through his own Personal Self. The glory of the apostles lies in what they have heard, and seen and handled of the Word of life. Christ is not only the chief est among the prophets, and the Head of the apostles, He is himself the personal embodiment of everything that is comprehended in the glory of our religion. "In him dwelleth the fulness of the Godhead bodily." name ourselves after Him. Salvation is given us in his name. From his Person and Name has gono forth the regenerating, liferenewing power, which has changed the fashion True Christianity is only where of this world. he is woi'shipped. He rules not merely bv the tradition of what he once was, spake, did and

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