by Thomas Moor
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... JFtftJj 9art BKIEF THOUGHTS AND COUNSELS, WITH SPECIAL PORTIONS OF SCRIPTURE FOR THE SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE DAILY PATH. FIRST DIVISION. I.--XXXI. I. "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God."--Heb. x. 12. "This Man." How the heart bounds with joy at the remembrance that the exalted and Holy One, who is now seated in the place of power, "the right hand of God," ruling throughout all creation, is a real man, possessing a humanity like our own--body, soul, and mind. How much more real, more human, more tangible, heavenly things are, when we are conscious that at the head of all is "this Man," Jesus; and that the Being whom angels worship and adore, and before whom they bow in loving submission, is the very one who dwelt a lowly one amongst men. "This Man," so loving, so gentle, so gracious, so kind, so humble-hearted, so tender in His sympathy, and faithful in His love, is ours--still our Shepherd, Friend, and Guide, our ever-gracious Sympathiser and ever-ready Helper. When He undertook the burden of His people's guilt, their sins became His own--not His own practically, but His own judicially--they, therefore, stood in the way between Himself and the "right hand of God." He cleared them out of the way by becoming the " one sacrifice for sins," and then "sat down on the right hand of God"--sure token that we who trust in Him; we whose sins He thus made His own, shall with Him also sit down "on the right hand of God." One with the Father as God, yet is He ever "this Man." Little do we know how wonderfully His humanity was fashioned and mellowed by His many sufferings, and weaknesses, and sorrows, and pains, and persecutions; in order that He might the better sympathise with His...
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