Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.121in the actual conduct of man. It was in vain tset the truth before man's intellect without a correspondingpower to act upon his will. Thereforethe apostle described the glory of the only-begotten Son, when He dwelt as man among us,by the double expression that He was "full oforace and truth."Viewed as the Head of humanonature, its Father and new beginning, He is theperpc tual fountain to _^^_ it of these two, which nlaw, not even one divinely given, could bestFor the law could make nothing perfect, becauseit could not touch the will; and the law gave theshadow, but not the very truth of things. Butwhen that unspeakable union of the divine naturewith the human had taken effect in the unity ofone Person, Truth and Grace had an everlastinghuman fountain in the created nature of the IncarnateWord. Now was the fountain to pourforth a perpetual stream upon the race assumed,And this it does by the * descent of the Spirit. "Inthis descent upon the assembled Church the Graceand Truth of the divine Head, with which HisFlesh, carried by the Godhead, overstreams, findthemselves a human dwelling in the race. Suchan operation belongs only to the Divine Spirit,for God alone can so act upon the intellect andwill of creatures as to penetrate them with Hisgifts of Truth and Grace, while He leaves themtheir free will, their full individuality, as crea-res. This, * then, VJU»VJ-*.* was the ransre of that powerLIRDADY IDKAKY CT Jl. J yUCY *F>vc 5 rAi V.UlLt(sc i crs;