06.00. The Person of Christ
The Person of Christ
Andrew Bonar
CONTENTS
PREFACE Chapter 1. The Person of Christ is the Essence of the Glad Tidings Chapter 2. The Gospel, from the Fall to the Day of the Apostles, was found in the Person of the Saviour Chapter 3. The Help Afforded by Christ’s Person to a Soul seeking to know sin and the Application of Salvation Chapter 4. How Looking to the Person of Christ Tends to Promote the peace that Passes Understanding Chapter 5. How Looking to the Person Tends to Advance Holiness in the Soul Chapter 6. How this looking to the Person affects our views of Death, and our hope of the Lord’s Second Coming
APPENDIX EXTRACTS FROM OLD AUTHORS Transcribed from The Person of Christ by Andrew A.Bonar D.D., first published EDINBURGH, ANDREW STEVENSON, 9 NORTH BANK STREET,
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Andrew Bonar
Andrew Bonar The Person of Christ - PREFACE IN this new Edition no change of any importance has been made beyond the correction of errata, and extending the texts quoted. The object of the book is to draw more attention to the great subject of connecting at all times the Person of Christ with His work. This is a point which the experience of the most solid believers has testified to as of vast importance. Toplady quotes the following case from the diary of one who afterwards preached Christ, Mr.Thomas Cole. Listen to his interesting statement : - ’" I was convinced I could be saved no other way than by grace, if I could but find grace enough. But at that time I saw more in my own sin than in God’s mercy. But this put me on a further inquiry after the grace of God, because my life lay upon it: and then I was brought to the Gospel. When, however, I came to the Gospel, I met with the law in it; that is, I was for turning the Gospel into law. I began to settle myself upon Gospel-duties, such as repentance, humiliation, believing, praying; and (I know not how) I forgot the promise of grace which first brought me to the Gospel. Soon I found I could neither believe nor pray as the Gospel required. While I was in this plunge, it pleased the Lord to direct me to study the Person of Christ, whom I looked on as the great undertaker in the work of man’s salvation! And truly here I may say, as Paul did, ’It pleased God to reveal His Son in me.’ God overcame my heart with this. I saw so much mercy in His mercy, so much love in His love, so much grace in His grace, that I knew not what to liken it to. And here my heart broke, I knew not how! Before this faith came, I knew not how to secure myself against past, present, and future sins: but there was that largeness of grace, that all-sufficiency of mercy, that infinity of righteousness, discovered to me in Christ, that I found sufficient for all the days of my life."
GLASGOW, June, 1858.
Transcribed from The Person of Christ by Andrew A.Bonar D.D., first published EDINBURGH, ANDREW STEVENSON, 9 NORTH BANK STREET,
1888 HTML transcription files copyright © 2001-2006. Jane Newble