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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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New Testament constitutes to modem thought not<br />

its strong, but its weak point; not its convincing<br />

evidence, but its point <strong>of</strong> attack <strong>and</strong> difficulty.<br />

Accordingly, treating <strong>of</strong>, or contemplating <strong>the</strong><br />

miracles <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

New Tastwneut, it is always <strong>the</strong>ir moral, not <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

ttfttuwJ (or supn^-<br />

BOOK natural), aspect which has its chief<br />

influence upon us. But what is in this but to say<br />

thi^t ours is moderuy not ancient thought, <strong>and</strong> that<br />

<strong>the</strong><br />

^*^"'' ' evidential power <strong>of</strong> Christ's miracles has<br />

given place to <strong>the</strong> age <strong>and</strong> dispensation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Holy<br />

Ghost ? With us <strong>the</strong> process is <strong>the</strong> reverse <strong>of</strong> what<br />

it was vrith <strong>the</strong>m <strong>of</strong> old. <strong>The</strong>y approached <strong>the</strong><br />

moral <strong>and</strong> spiritual through <strong>the</strong> miraculous; we <strong>the</strong><br />

miraculous through <strong>the</strong> moral <strong>and</strong> spiritual. His<br />

Presence, that one gr<strong>and</strong> Presence is, indeed, ever<br />

<strong>the</strong> same. But God always adapts His teaching to<br />

our learning; else it were not teaching at all, least

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