The Gospel a remedy for sinners-All opinions respecting it relate to the Persons by whom the remedy is brought, or SECT. 1. All the divine appearances recorded in the Old Tes- tament, referred to one Person, called Angel and 2. Christ the Jehovah, who appeared to the Patriarchs, was worshipped in the Temple, and announced as the author of a new dispensation. 3. Objections to the preceding proposition-Different Reserve with which he revealed his dignity-Circumstances SECT. 1. Jesus called God-Circumstances which intimate that Passages which present the divine and human nature of Christ tics-Apollinaris-Nestorius-Eutyches-Monophysites -Monothelites--Miraculous conception-Hypostatical union the key to a great part of the phraseology of Scrip- Page Form of Baptism-Instruction connected with the administra- 2. Three systems of the Trinity-Sabellian-Arian, and Semi-Arian-Catholic. 3. Principles by which the Catholic System repels the 4. Dr. Clarke's system-Amount of our knowledge re- LECTURES IN DIVINITY. BOOK I. EVIDENCES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE. THE professed design of students in divinity is to prepare for a most honourable and important office, for being workers together with God in that great and benevolent scheme, by which he is restoring the virtue and happiness of his intelligent offspring, and for holding, with credit to themselves and with advantage to the public, that station in society, by the establishment of which the wisdom of the state lends its aid to render the labours of the servants of Christ respectable and useful. Learning, prudence, and eloquence never can be so worthily employed as when they are devoted to the improvement of mankind: and a good man will find no exertion of his talents so pleasing as that by which he endeavours to make other men such as they ought to be. We expect the breast of every student of divinity to be possessed with these views. If any person is devoid of them, if he despises the office of a minister of the gospel, if the character of his mind is such as to derive no satisfaction from the employments of that office, or from the object towards which they are directed, he ought to B |