Pulpit Ministrations Author:Gardiner Spring General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Original Publisher: Harper Subjects: Presbyterian Church Sermons, American Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Religion / Christianity / Presbyterian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ill... more »ustrations 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: SERMON ILL THE FATHER GLORIFIED BY THE HUMILIATION OF THE SON. John, xvii., 4. -- "Ihave glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." THE light of heaven never shone upon the mere man who could honestly adopt such language as this. Never was there such a work; and never was a work so perfectly, so gloriously accomplished. His work was not literally finished until after his sufferings and death on the cross, and his burial and resurrection. He speaks, as the rhetoricians would say, proleptic- ally, or antedating the event before the actual time. His work of service was past; the final catastrophe was so near and so certain that he here regards it as having taken place, and looks upon the mission upon which he entered as already fulfilled. It is his work of Humiliation of which he speaks in the text, " I have glorified thee on the earth." It is the work he performed on the earth. It is a work in every view worthy of the Eternal Son, and in every view honorable to the Eternal Father, for its lofty aims, itsmoral grandeur, the difficulties in the way of accomplishing it, its benevolent results, and the glory it confers on the infinite Deity, there is nothing like it in the universe. We owe it to him to acknowledge and proclaim its pre-eminence ; and we owe it to his Father to show How, As The Eternal And Infinite Deity, He Was GloRified BY THE HUMILIATION OF THE SON. This is t...« less