The Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament Considered in 8 Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford, on the Foundation of J. Bampton
by Thomas Dehany Bernard (9781150788901)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LECTURE II. THE GOSPELS. St. Mark i. i. The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of Gad. WITH reverential and affectionate interest we look back to the beginnings of those things which possess our allegiance Ob established powers, or are daily enjoyed as familiar blessings. The thought that they had a beginning, that there was once a time when they were not, gives a freshness to the feelings with which we regard them; while the comparison of the state of commencement with the state of perfection brings with it a natural pleasure, in marking the tendencies and the tokens of all that has happened since. No words can open the heart to these impressions so powerfully as those which have just been uttered. The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, places us at the opening of the mystery of godliness, of the salvation of the world, of the glory which fills the heavens, and of the kingdom which endures for ever. The expression with which St. Mark opens his narrative implies that the Gospel is then an established fact and a completed scheme, and that he here returns to the moment when the fact began to assert itself before the world as already present, and the scheme to shew itself as in actual progress. The beginning of the Gospel (according to this Evangelist) is not found at the birth of Jesus, when the communications of Heaven were made but to few, and died suddenly into silence; but from the time when John did baptize in the wilderness, and when Jesus began to shew himself, and " the word of the beginning of Christ" was publicly proclaimed, never to be again suspended ...

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