The Word, who was in the beginning, and was in the beginning with God, did not make man, as man makes a thing — a piece of furniture, or a house, or what not — turning it out of hand, and so leaving it to shift for itself. And this impression is deepened by the vicissitudes to which men are exposed, and the cheapness of human life. Aristotle's and Plato's triads, again were simply psychological. H. Spurgeon.The greatest glory of the Jewish Church was thai God tabernacled in its midst. Nothing so terrible to a lost soul as the former. A. The doctrine is woven in the very texture of the sacred books. Both awaken antagonism, the former Herod's hostility, etc., the latter that of the depraved nature.4. What privilege! THAT THERE MAY BE A PERFECT EXAMPLE. If man, yet the man hath part — the soul.5. His ALMIGHTY POWER, able to minister to every need and relieve every suffering.V. The intelligence that built the world, made the Bible.IV. TO PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN LIFE. "And" is no common conjunction. "( Augustine. Negatively. "Matter is essentially evil," said the Greek philosopher. You know it now because the word was made sound, and you caught it. We beheld: not at a blush, but at full sight, and at leisure and for long. That is to say, the Divine laid hold of the human in such a way as to make the human, so far as it could be made, a true image and reflection of itself. Culross, D. D.)The character of JesusJ. Braden. The angels saw Him, and the wise men and the apostles, etc., etc.2. Patton. From the Scriptures. Each individual believer in this covenant of grace, lives eternally. Let us abide in joyful, peaceful confidence in Him who is grace and truth to us.4. He came at the very moment that the investment was complete, with the last train, the last breath of free air. It made it necessary that the humanity should be pure; hence the peculiar manner of Christ's birth, wherein the entail of sin was broken, and His body made a holy thing.2. )The True Tabernacle and its gloryC. The material part of our nature has been maligned in every age; but ever since the incarnation it has been respected more and more. His generation eternal as the Word of God is as the inditing of the Word within the heart. Union with our natures is utterly vain without union with our persons.6. )Voluntary sympathyH. Fitly do these follow after glory. For God can have no fellowship with sin, and had Christ been a sinner He could not have satisfied for the sins of others (Hebrews 7:26). The hand that Jesus reaches down to rescue man is the hand of the Almighty. The man who worships the Lord Jesus as God, and gives Him the homage of his heart is a Christian, although he may not accept the Athanasian statement. We have not been able to cope with the ancients in marble, but it is generally admitted, I believe, that we have greatly surpassed them on canvas. Let us abide in joyful, peaceful confidence in Him who is grace and truth to us.4. When we "have told its isles of light, and fancied all beyond," there must yet be heights and depths in that High and Lofty One who inhabiteth eternity which no fancy, however soaring, can penetrate. This is the confession of friends and foes of His own day and ours. Christ, Immanuel, Jesus, are our Lord's names in time; but "Word" and "Son" are expressive of His eternal standing. Let us tell everybody about it.5. He took a body like ours in order that we might know God's thoughts about us; and the more we know Jesus the more we know of God's mind. In the Son of God alone could the necessary merit be found.3. The only-begotten of the Father.2. (3) Grace and truth balanced. The ability to appeal to the historic facts concerning the life of our Lord is the strongest confirmation of the truth of our religious instincts. The Incarnation gives to the Bible its unity. This is the only true basis of missionary confidence, and the continuously fulfilling prophecy of the final victory.IX. His family is His body, and His body is His bride, and His bride is His Church; and He lives in the members. From the Scriptures. "Who hath delivered us from the wrath to come. 1. We may take any article of the Christian creed, except those which affirm or imply the unity of God and the natural depravity of men, and attempt to separate it from this supreme and central fact, and we fail.2. The Word is made flesh, and sojourns among men; and they find in Him the very fulness of the Godhead bodily.(J. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.)The influence of Christ's grace and truth upon artJ. Of Christ's complex person as God and man.2. 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