The Foundations of Faith Considered in Eight Sermons Preached Before the Univers
The Foundations of Faith Considered in Eight Sermons Preached Before the Univers
Henry Wace
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A voice is heard saying, ' This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased r . ' We follow Him to the temptation — the critical trial of His fitness for the awful ministry to which He was destined ; and in what does the temptation con- sist % In three successive attempts of the malignant i St. Luke ii. 49. * St. Matthew iii. 17. 128 Our Lord's demand [Lect. spirit to induce Him to distrust His Father. He is invited to exert His own power, to claim a glory of His own, to display His special pr...ivileges, for objects which were not those of His Father' s will. He refuses ; He submits himself absolutely to that will, and He comes forth from the trial to proclaim, not His own kingdom, but the kingdom of God. After this, we find Him, during a ministry of two or three years (to quote St. Matthew's summary) ' teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people s . He exhibited in that short time a character of mercy, love, truth, righteousness, which has rendered Him, not only among Christians, but even among those who reject His loftiest claims, the supreme ideal of all that the conscience and the heart of man demand.
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