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The
5 6 Islam
offered : and
of the Father-God.
all was a parable of the work
It was not a new thought to His hearers
kf.r ~ that the profoundest attribute of God is
holiness, and that distinctions between
right and wrong become acute in His
presence but it was a revelation to which
;
the world of men has not yet become
accustomed that the Father is so set upon
goodness in the children who had miserably
failed of it, that no sacrifice was too great,
even for Him> to secure it ;
and that this
austerity towards evil and purpose to subdue
it, was the Father love in its highest
exercise. In the Cross, symbol
at once of
man's sin and of His own grace, our Lord
is still speaking the parable
of the Father's
"work." "The Father worketh, and I
work."
" God so loved the world that He
gave "
JESUS.
Muhammad felt after God, and attained
the idea of His apartness, aloneness,
immensity.