Thoughts On the Services Designed As An Introduction to the Liturgy And An Aid
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Of this event, the prophecy is explicit: — "In the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen. " 172 GOOD FRIDAY. It must be observed, moreover, that the whole transaction was designed to teach Abraham, and the faithful through him, that the love which he bore to his son, " his only son, " was only a faint type of that of the Father to His well-beloved. St. Paul tells us that the unbinding of Isaac was a signal type of the Resurrection, and that Abrar ham acted as he did, sustained by strong faith that... God was able to raise him from the dead. Thus we see that the patriarchs knew and believed more of the Gospel than is usually supposed. The Second Lesson begins St. John's narrative of the Passion, and closes with the astounding declaration that he whom the Jews chose to re- lease instead of Christ, was, like all that ever came before Him, a "thief and a robber!" For the Introit is sung arpassage from the 22d Psalm, "My God, my God, look upon me. " The Collects are three: the first commemorative of Jesus; the second a supplication for the faithful; and the third, (after the example of Christ, ) a prayer for His murderers : — those infidels who cru- cify Him afresh, as well as the pagans who know Him not ; those Turks and Heretics who deny His power and Godhead; and tliose unhappy Jews who wander the Earth, as living witnesses of the hour when their fathers cried, "His blood be on us and on our children.
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