The Historic Faith: Short Lectures on the Apostles' Creed

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I. Faith

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Faith the condition of Life 4

and of Beligion 5

Opposed to Credulity, Superstition, Conviction . . 6

The idea of Faith 7

Faith a principle of Knowledge 8

a principle of Power 10

a principle of Action . . . . .11

Faith the touchstone of Life 13

II. Creeds

No man without a Creed 17

The efficacy of a Creed 18

A Creed the occasion of Confession 19

the mark of the universality of the Faith in place . 20

in time 21

guards the fulness of Faith 22

guides to the study of Scripture .... id.

The Apostles' Creed personal in its ohject ... 28

and historical 25

To this ' we have been delivered * 26 xii Contents.

III

f BELIEVE m GOD THE FATHER, ALMIGHTY, MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.

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The first article of the Creed 31

The significance of belief in Goi 32

God the Father 34

All-sovereign 36

Maker of heaven and earth 38

The range of our belief in God 39

For as God is One Who mles, Who can be served. Who

loves and can be loved 40

There may be an orthodox atheism 41

The apparent absence of God from the world , , . id.

His real presence 42

IV. And In Je8v8 Christ His Only Son Our

LORD.

The presence of God given back to us in Jesus Christ . 45 Our belief in Jesus Christ involves a belief in His Person,

and in His Nature 46

By the belief in Jesus as the Christ we recognise the fulfilment of the work of Judaism wrought in unexpected

ways 47

The Divine Nature of Christ is presented to us by the confession that He is The Son of God, our Lord . . 49 Belief in Jesus as the Son of God. Consequences of the

beUef 60

Belief in Jesus as our Lord 51

The obligation of the confession of Faith . .52

Christianity a belief in Christ 54

Hence flows our trust in the institutions of society . . 55

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WHO WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY QHOST, BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY, SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DEAD, AND BURIED.

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The work of Christ on earth 59

Danger of realism 60

This article of the Greed gradually enlarged .id,

Significanoe of each element 61

The lesson of Christ's humanity 62

Christ truly man id.

Christ perfectly man 63

Christ representatively man 64

The importance of this truth, the consecration of all

that is human 65

The lesson of Christ's sufferings 66

The Redemption and the Fall id.

Conquering love 67

The discipline of sons 68

The victory 69

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HE DESCENDED INTO HELL; THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD; HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND SIT- TETH ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY.

The revelation of Christ's glory Cautions in dealing with this revelation . Words suggestive not expressive of the truth The desoent into Hades ....

No dear disclosure of the purpose The Besurrection

The lesson of the Besurrection .

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The Ascension 80

The lessons of the Ascension 81

The Session at the right hand of Gk>d .... 82 Practical bearing of the Bevelation of Christ's work in

the world of Spirit 8a

VII. From Thence He Shall Come To Judge The Quick And The Dead

Universal belief in the Betnm in the apostolic age . . 87

as instant 88

Vagueness of our own idea . . . ... .89

Christ came in the Fall of Jerusalem . . . . 90

The lesson of that Coming id.

Other Comings 91

Belief in future Comings 93

A present Coming id.

recognised by behevers 94 |

A future Judgment 95 '

universal i

personal

self-executing 9&

The power of the revelation 97

its present efficacy 98

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VIII. I Believe In The Holy Ghost

The belief developed in regard to the Society, the individual, the final issue lOS

characteristic of Christianity 104

Bevelation of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament . 105

an interpretation of life . 105

The Holy Spirit unfolds Christ's name in the manifold-

ness of being 108>

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We live in the diBpensation of the Spirit . . . 109

There is for us

a divine message 110

a personal call . . . . . . . Ill

a personal consecration id,

an illomination of life.

IX. The Holy Catholic Church: The Communion Of Saints

There is a Body of Christ seen and unseen . . . 115

This fact an object of Faith 116

The Unity of the Church in spite of divisions . . . 117

The Holiness of the Church in spite of failures and sins . 119 The Catholicity of the Church in spite of outward divi-

- sions 121

The Bible and the Church both Catholic . . .122

The Communion of Saints 12S

The influence of this twofold beUef 124