THE incarnation of the Son of God was promised of old, The manner of the Incarnation explained It consisted in the assumption of a human nature into the individual unity of the Divine person VI. VII. a SECT. As to her pedigree, she was of the house of David With regard to her condition, she was a real Virgin Her virginity remaining unblemished, she became indeed The dangerous error of the Anabaptists, relative to the XXIV. XXVII. XXXIV. XXXVIII. He was born oF A VIRGIN, that he might be pure from Improvement of this article XXXIX. XLIII. XLVI. Christ sustained the wrath of God from the beginning to And that in order to reconcile sinners to God XVII-XIX. Not for all mankind and every individual; but, according to the counsel of God and Christ, for the elect only Reasons for PILATE's being mentioned in the Creed His supreme power in Judea XXI. XXII. Which, being a foreign and a heathen power, suggests several things of great moment XXV. XXVI. On the Crucifixion and Death of Christ. The Cross of Christ is the foundation of all Religion The cross of Christ had probably nothing very different The history of the discovery of the cross by Helena Which, by many arguments, is shown to be fabulous Crucifixion was preceded, 1. By beating XXXII. XXXII. The punishment of the cross was justly deemed the highest XXXI. It was accursed by God himself Yet cursed The crucifixion of Christ ought to be devoutly contem- est concern His being scourged, bearing the cross, and being stripped David and Zechariah prophesied of the crucifixion All things, in short, happened to Christ, according to the Scourging was exceedingly grievous to Christ And his expulsion from the city, bearing the cross And his being stripped of his garments It is not without a spiritual sympathy, that we should LX.-LXII. We should turn all our grief and anger against sin LXIII. LXIV. of consolation LXV. LXXIII. From the death of Christ, we learn to live and to die holily LXXIV. LXXV. The dead body of Jesus was wrapped in clean linen, as The mixture of myrrh and aloes was added by Nicode- mus, either for embalming, or for burning This attention to corpses was probably referred by the pious to the hope of the resurrection The form of the Jewish sepulchres SECT. Jonah's great fish is not a Whale, but rather a Sea-dog The fable of Hercules Tri-esperos borrowed from it With regard to the analogy as to time, the simple explan- XXVI. XXIX. XXIII. XXIV. XXV. |