Christ our redeemer Author:Jesus Christ Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE MEDIATOR " There is one Ood, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus." 1 Tim. ii. 5. Through this great Mediator all that come to Hi... more »m are acceptable to God. Without Him the best of us are lost; by Him the chief of sinners may, even at the eleventh hour, come to the Throne of Grace. Through Him the curse of the law is removed, even that curse which lighteth on every one " that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord;" and by His spirit we are taught to rest our confidence on God alone. So that we may then say, with an alacrity and spring of soul which nothing but a happy experience can give, " It is better to trust in the Lord than to put any confidence in man. The Lord is my light and my salvation : whom, then, shall I fear ? The Lord is the strength of my life: of whom, then, shall I be afraid ?" H. Woodwaed. Faith does not only acknowledge a Mediator, but takes a full view of the misery of that state wherein we lay through sin, and of the blessedness of that into which we are translated by the redemption which is in Jesus. It contemplates this Mediator in all the several steps of condescension and humiliation, in all the tenderness and transports of His passion, in all the melancholy scenes of His sufferings, and the bright and cheerful ones of His glory. Rev. Dr. R. Lucas. i As certainly as a vessel can hold no more than its own measure, so certainly no being can understand anything higher than itself. The animals have no power of understanding those qualities in which man transcends the limits of their nature; man has no power of understanding those qualities in which angels excel us; the very angels and archangels have no power of comprehending God's infinities. For the finite, however large, can...« less