6.1.1 Intro: The CURE for DEATH #1 Intro; “Behold I bring you Good Tidings of Great Joy.”

The Particular, Special,

and Important Doctrines of the Gospel,

which Express the Grace of Jesus Christ,

and

the Blessings of Grace by Jesus Christ are;

THE CURE for DEATH.

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We will begin with

The Incarnation of

The Son of God.

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The Incarnation of the Son of God

 is a considerable part

of The Glad Tidings of the Gospel,

and

The Incarnation of the Son of God

Gives the Gospel the Name:

“The Glad Tidings.”

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When the Angels

spoke to the shepherds

about the Birth of Jesus Christ,

the Angel said to them;

“Behold I bring you

Good Tidings of Great Joy”,

in Luke 2:10,11;

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“And the Angel said to them,

Fear not: for, behold,

I bring you

Good Tidings of Great Joy,

which will be to all people.

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“For to you is Born this day

in the city of David

a Savior,

which is Christ the Lord.”

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The Whole Gospel is a Mystery;

…

the various Doctrines of

The Whole Gospel

are the Mysteries of the Kingdom;

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The knowledge of

The Whole Gospel is given to some,

and not to others;

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The Whole Gospel

 is the Mystery of Godliness,

and,

without controversy, Great;

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And THE BODY

GIVEN TO JESUS CHRIST

stands as the first

and Principal Article of

The Whole Gospel;

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“God manifest in the flesh”

(1 Tim. 3:16).

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This is the basis of the Christian religion;

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“God manifest in the flesh”

is a fundamental article of

the Christian religion;

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And without the belief of 

“God manifest in the flesh”

no man can be a Christian;

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“Every spirit that confesses

that Jesus Christ

is come in the flesh,

is of God;”

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= Born of God, and belongs to Him,

and is on the side of God and Truth;

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“And every spirit

that confesses not

that Jesus Christ

is come in the flesh,

is not of God”

(1 John 4:2,3).

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The Incarnation of Christ

is a most extraordinary

and amazing affair;

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It is wonderful indeed,

that the Eternal Son of God

should become man;

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That he should be born of a pure virgin,

without any concern of man in it;

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That this should be brought about

by the Power of the Holy Ghost,

in a way Unseen, Imperceptible

and Unknown,

signified by His Overshadowing;

and

all this in order

to effect the Most Wonderful Work

that ever was done in the world,

the Redemption and Salvation of men:

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It is a most Mysterious thing,

Incomprehensible by men,

and not to be accounted for

upon the principles of natural reason;

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And is only to be believed

and embraced

upon the credit of Divine Revelation,

to which it solely belongs.

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The heathens had some faint notions

of it;

at least say some things similar to it.

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The Brachmanes among the Indians, asserted,

that Wistnavius,

the second person of the trine-une god

with them,

had nine times assumed a body,

and sometimes an human one;

and would once more do the same again;

and that he was once born of a virgin.

[1]

Confucius, the famous Chinese philosopher,

who lived almost five hundred years

before Christ, it is said,

[2] foresaw that the Word

would be made flesh;

and foretold the year

in which it would be;

and which was the very year

in which Christ was born:

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but this seems to sound too much

story by a Christian in later times.

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However, several of the deities

and heroes of the heathens, Greeks

and Romans, are represented

as having no father.

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[3] Now whatever notion the heathens had

of an incarnate God,

or of a divine Person born of a virgin,

in whatever manner expressed;

this was not owing to any discoveries

made by the light of nature,

but what was traditionally handed down to them,

and was the broken remains of a revelation

that their ancestors were acquainted with.

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However,

The Incarnation of the Son of God

is a Doctrine of Pure Revelation.

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