Jesus hearing this, loved him, and said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: Then come the apostles and evan gelists after his death, and they, in express words, teach what his birth, life, and doctrine had done before, and had prepared the well-disposed to receive, viz. For this man does many miracles. Request removal from index. He does constantly unless where the confirmation of some truth requires it otherwise bring about his purposes by means operating according to their natures.
And that the Messiah was to be without sin, which is the import of the word Just, was the opinion of the jews, appears from John ix. Should Locke be taken, then, to have said more prudently what Hobbes, perhaps too boldly for his own good, had already said about the necessary political supervision of Christian dogmatism? He leaves reaxonableness to learn from these the truth they were christianuty believe, viz.
Immortality and bliss, belong to the righteous; those who have lived in an exact conformity to the law of God, are out of the reach of death; but an exclusion from paradise and loss of immortality is the portion of sinners; of all those who have any way broke that law, and failed of a complete obedience to it, by the guilt of any one transgression. Thou hast the words of eternal life: This book is available as part of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online — explore trustworthy, annotated texts of writing worth reading.
But it is enough, that it appears plainly, that it was so used, and had that import among the jews at that time: Oxford Scholarly Editions Online.
That Jesus is the Christ is the sole article of faith necessary for a Christian. Upon this, Jesus tells them they ought to believe him to be the Messiah, notwithstanding what had happened: For since the Messiah was to be a Saviour and a king, and to give life and a kingdom to those who received him, as we shall see by and by; there could have been no pretence to have given him out for the Messiah, and to require men to believe him to be so, who thought him under the power of death, and cor ruption of the grave.
This being premised, let us take a view of the promulgation of the gospel by our Saviour himself, and see what it was he taught the world, and required men to believe. He that made use of this candle of the Lord, so far as to find what was his duty, could not miss to find also the way to reconciliation and foregiveness, when he had failed of his duty: And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.
To this, they would have it be also a state of necessary sinning, and provoking God in every action that men do: To this design and method of publishing the gospel, was the choice of the apostles exactly adjusted; a company Edition: This is a religion suited to vulgar capacities, and the state of mankind in this world, destined to labour and travail. John Locke said that the Word is through Jesus Christ. This is reasonable to He never taught that Christianity can be found by human reasoning.
This does not. The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures. John Locke. Sold by Johnson and Co. And D. The little satisfaction and consistency that is to be reasonablensss, in most of the systems of divinity I have met with, made me betake myself to the sole reading of the scriptures to which they all appeal for the understanding the Christian Religion. What from thence, by an attentive and unbiassed search, I have received, Reader, I here deliver to thee. If by this my labour thou receivest any light, or confirmation in the truth, join with me in thanks to the Father of lights, for his condescension to our understandings.
If upon a fair and unprejudiced examination, thou findest I have mistaken the sense and tenour of the Gospel, I beseech thee, as a true Christian, in the spirit of the Gospel, which is that of charity, and in the words of sobriety, set me right, in the doctrine of salvation. To understand, therefore, what we are restored to by Jesus Christ, we must consider what the scriptures show we lost by Adam. This I thought worthy of a diligent and unbiassed search: And, indeed, both sides will be suspected to have trespassed this way, against the written word of God, by any one, who does but take it to be a collection of writings, designed by God, for the instruction of the illiterate bulk of mankind, in the way to salvation; and therefore, generally, and in necessary points, to be understood in the plain direct meaning of the words and phrases: To one that, thus unbiassed, reads the scriptures, what Adam fell from is visible was the state of perfect obedience, which is called justice in the New Testament; though the word, christianjty in the original signifies justice, be translated righteousness: The penalty chrisianity to the breach of the law, with the sentence pronounced by God upon it, show this.
This shows, that the state of paradise was a state of immortality, of life without end; which he lost that very day that he eat: Death then entered, and showed his face, which before was shut out, and not known. I shall say nothing more here, how far, in the apprehensions of men, this consists with the justice and goodness of God, having mentioned it above: And would any one think himself fairly dealt with, that was so used?
To this, they would have it be also a state of necessary sinning, and provoking God in every action that men do: Could a worthy man be supposed to put such terms upon the obedience of his subjects? Much less can the righteous God be supposed, as a punishment of one sin, wherewith he is displeased, to put man under the necessity of sinning continually, and so multiplying the provocation. The reason of this strange interpretation, we shall perhaps find, in some mistaken places of the Edition: I must confess, by death here, Ov can understand nothing but a ceasing to be, the losing of all actions of life and sense.
Such a death came on Adam, and all his posterity, by his first disobedience in paradise; under which death they should have lain for ever, christiahity it not been for the redemption by Jesus Christ.
This shows, that paradise was a place of bliss, as well as immortality; without drudgery, and without sorrow. But, when man was turned out, he was exposed to the toil, anxiety, and frailties of this mortal life, which should end in the dust, out of which he was made, and to which he should return; and then have no more life or sense, than the dust had, out of which he was made.
As Adam was turned out of paradise, so all his posterity were born out of it, llocke of the reach of the tree of life; all, like their father Adam, in a state of mortality, void of the tranquility and bliss of paradise. Had he taken from mankind any thing that was their right, or did he put men in a state of misery, worse than not reasonablness, without any fault or demerit of their own; this, indeed, would be hard to reconcile with the notion we have of justice; and much more with the goodness, and other attributes of the supreme Being, which he has declared of himself; and reason, as well as revelation, must acknowledge to be in him; unless we will confound good and evil, God and Satan.
But that such a temporary life, as we now have, with all its frailties and ordinary miseries, is better than no reasonablleness, is evident, by the high value we put upon it ourselves. And therefore, though all die in Adam, yet none are truly punished, but for their own deeds. And he tells his disciples, that when he comes again with his angels, in the glory of his Father, that then he will render to every one according to his works, Matt.
Adam being thus turned out of paradise, and all his posterity born out of it, the consequence of it was, that all men should die, and remain under death for ever, and so be utterly lost.
From this estate of death, Jesus Christ restores all mankind to life; 1 Cor. Then they recover from death, which otherwise all mankind should have continued under, lost for ever; as appears by St. Christ will bring them all to life again; and then they shall be put every one upon his own trial, and receive judgment, as he is found to be righteous, or not.
And the righteous, as our Saviour says, Matt. Sold by Johnson and Co. And D. For now he speaks plainly of himself, and of his kingdom, John xiii. The same method will best arid plainest show us, whether he required of those who believed him to be the Messiah, any thing besides that faith, and what it was. Bold, Rector of Steeple, Christinaity. Request removal from index. John uses it in that sense we may see, chap.
And what would they have done, if he had before them professed himself to have been the Messiah, their King and deliverer? These trials he made there; but found their unbelief such, that if he had staid and persisted to preach the good tidings of the kingdom, and to show himself by miracles among them, he rwasonableness not have had time and freedom to do those works which his Father had given him to finish, as he says, ver.
He locoe not expect, it is true, a perfect obedience, void of slips and falls: But the clear revelation jonn brought with him, dissipated this darkness; made the one invisible true God known to the world: My way to my throne reasonzbleness closely hedged in on every side, and much straitened; within which I must keep, until it reasonablenesz me lockee my cross in its due time and manner; so that it do not cut short the time, nor cross the end of my ministry.
But that, even so late as this, they understood not his death and resurrection, is evident from ver. That the jews not accepting of the kingdom 72 The Reasonableness of Christianityof the Messiah, to whom it was first offered, other should be brought in.
Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee, am he. All men indeed, under pain of displeasing the gods, were to frequent the temples reasonablenesss, every one went to their sacrifices and services; but the priests made it not their business to teach them virtue.
Death then entered, and showed his face, which before was shut out, and riot known. In the next chapter, John x. This though a clear description of the Messiah, yet we may observe, that here, to the angry jews, who sought to kill him, he says not a word of his kingdom, nor so much as names the Messiah ; but yet that he is the Son of God, and sent from God, he refers them to the testimony of John the Baptist ; to the testimony of his own miracles, and of God himself in the voice from heaven, arid of the scriptures, and of Moses.
Adam being thus turned out of paradise, and all his posterity born out of it, the consequence of it was, that all men should die, and remain under death for ever, and so be utterly lost. He said, all these have I observed from my youth.
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