A sermon, preached on the death of Mr. N. Aspden, surgeon : before a respectable audience, in the Methodist Chapel, Blackburn, on Sunday, September 30th, 1798. With enlargements, and illustrated with notes / by T. Wood.

  • Wood, Thomas, -1826.
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[1798]
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Credit: A sermon, preached on the death of Mr. N. Aspden, surgeon : before a respectable audience, in the Methodist Chapel, Blackburn, on Sunday, September 30th, 1798. With enlargements, and illustrated with notes / by T. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    religious worfliip in the feveral parts- of it.*—He is alfo man ; the eternal Word was made fieJh, i. e. he af- fumed human nature (m). God was manifejl in the jlefh (#), lie took part of flejh and blood (o). He is both God and man in one Perfon : He was a divine per- fon from eternity; and in the fulnefs of time he took the human nature into union with the divine, as fub- iitfingr in his Perfon: And therefore,, he is Piled D -Mr- Immanuel, God with us (ji), which is a chara6ter and name inclutive of his two natures, divine and human. The union of thefe two, natures in the perfon of Ghrift, is clofe and infeparable ; yet without mixture and confufion, or tranfmutation, and. without real and perfonal diftinaion. This is the wonderful, myfte- I'iousr conftitution of his Perfon \ and it is flngujar and peculiar to himfelf; and in which he differs from all others. He is the, mighty God \q)y the great God. (f)% the true God (f), God over all, and lleffed for ever (t)f And yet, the fame Perfon is man, the feed of David (x)^ eai% M John i. 14. fn)' 1 Tim. Hi. 16. (0) Heb. ii. 14. (p.) Ifa. vii, 14. Matt. i. 23* (d) ?.* (?' r^*tus U* *3* (J) 1 John v. 20. (0 Rom. ix. 5. («) Rom. i. 3. * « The divinity of Jefus/* fays an able author, u I conceivp to be the chief corner-ftone in the edifice of Chriftiamty. Re¬ move this from the building, and the whole fabric immediately totters, the foundation is ihak.cn to the very centre. There ap¬ pears at once, an evident difproportion between the end and the means, the importance of the object propofed, and the perfon by whom it was accompliihed. And then the great dodti ine of atone¬ ment and expiation, by the blood ot its Author, tails to thegiound, and all the rich promiles ot the gofpel are done away. Again, « The divinity of Jeius is fo confpicuous a feature in the gofpel, and is fupported by evidences which prefs upon us fo clofely on every fide, that I flatter myfelf, there is not any one point o., Chrift’s religion more capable ot being clearly proved and alcei- tamed, than his claim to a divine nature.” Hawker's Sermons, [lag. 8, 40.