The lord of humanity, or, The testimony of human consciousness / by Frederick James Gant.

  • Frederick James Gant
Date:
1889
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Credit: The lord of humanity, or, The testimony of human consciousness / by Frederick James Gant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    person of One Who, before He took flesh, had no connexion with man, His conjoined human personality would together have made Him a substitute-man. Expiatory suffering in a Being who was Himself incapable of feeling it, which, if conceivable, would have been an extraordinary miscarriage of justice, and which, in the substitute-nature of the sufferer, would have been an utterly abortive miscarriage on behalf of any human being. In the Lord of Humanity, Whose life having brought the assurance of God’s Fatherhood to man- kind, was thus also the demonstration of His own oneness with God, Mankind at once recognise a purely Innocent Being, but, Who, as the Righteous and Living root of Humanity, became Incarnate ; thenjthe substitution of a (newly) conjoined human personality vanishes—in His identical oneness with man, and His inclusiveness also appears—in His actual im- personation of Mankind as an organic whole. Then, moreover, a yet further bright realisation is experienced by the Race he visited as ‘ His own.’ For Him, Who in the Human aspect of His Being is the Head and Owner of the Race, to have undergone the naturally inevitable — not to Him penal — conse- quences of His Incarnation, in bearing the sufferings and the death of Mankind, solely for their sake, as the only conceivable reason for the self-sacrifice and humiliation of His pre-existent Being, would in-
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