Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

WHEN CUBIST APPEARED.53blance, save the perfect Image of God ? Thus,when the corruption had run its course, and theoriginal disobedience had reproduced itself all overthe earth in a harvest of evil and disorder, thetime for the work of reparation was come, and theDivine Word, the Image of the Father, took flesh.Magnificent as had been the dower of the FirstMan, and wonderful the grace which held his soulin harmony with itself, and his bodily affections inobedience to his soul, incomparably more magnificentwas the dower of human nature in its reparation,inconceivably grander the grace which ruledthe Soul and Body of the Restorer.For whereasthe First Man's person had been simply human, thePerson of the Second Man was the Divine WordHimself, the perfect Image of the Father ; andwhereas the grace of the First Man was such thathe was able not to sin, the grace which had assumedthe nature of the Second Man was a Personwho could not sin, the fountain of grace itself,measureless, absolute, and personal. The Imageof God Himself came to restore the copy of thatImage in Man; his appearance as man among menwas the reconveying of the Truth to them, becauseHe was the Truth Himself. The Truth in all itsextent ; X the Truth in the whole moral order i andevery relation which belongs to it ; the Truth by. which all the rational creation of God correspondsto the Idea of its Creator, was the gift which Hebrought to man in His Incarnation.