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Sermons, Expositions, and Addresses at the Holy Communion
Sermons Expositions and Addresses at the Holy Communion Author:Alexander Waugh 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: SERMON II. THE GRACE AND CONDESCENSION OF THE SOX OF GOD. 2 Cor. viii. 9. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that thotigh he was rich, yet for... more » your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. I. Take a view of the riches which Christ originally possessed: there was a state prior to that in which he lived on earth, or voluntary poverty could not be ascribed to him: the apostle does not mean that he was once rich on the earth, and afterwards became poor, for he was poor even at his birth; he was rich, therefore, before he came into the world. ' 1. He was rich in the possession of divine perfection and glory. The Scripture represents the person who was born at Bethlehem and expired on Calvary, as greater than a prophet, as greater than the kings of the earth— as the only Son of God—as the Creator of the world— this is he, whose glory is thus celebrated by the evangelical prophet: " Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Themighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." He is " the Word, who in the beginning was with God, and was God, the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person;" and though he came of the Jews, according to the flesh, he is, " God over all, blessed for ever." This is language too sublime to be employed in the description of any creature, although the most exalted which the mind of man can conceive. Let Socinians talk of a mere man, who could not become poor, because he had no existence antecedent to his birth. Let the Arian dream of a super-angelic being, the first and noblest of the works of God; or, elevating his style, let him represent him as the Son begotten before all wor...« less