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TESTIMONY OF REV. H. B. BROWNING. 69

" But in Jesus, * God manifest in the flesh/ we have a revelation of God exactly suited to our wants. The vagueness of belief in God, which prior to the incarnation was inevitable, is now abolished in Christ Jesus our Lord. * God in Christ' is so brought down to our spiritual state, that He can be a subject of rational thought and an object of rational love. The incarnation was such an accommodation of God to our condition as to bring Him within the limitations of human thought and affection. It was the most wonderful of all Divine accommodations to man's state. To know Christ is to know God, and to love Christ is to love God; not God afar off in the infinitude of his Divine nature, incomprehensible by human thought; not God as an abstract idea taking shape in the necessary anthropomorphism of our own minds; but God incarnate — ' Immanuel, God with us.'

" To angels in heaven as well as to men on earth, God, who in Himself is invisible, is manifested in Christ. They think of God and see Him as a Divine Man, who created them in his own image and likeness, and who Himself descended into the natural and material plane of his creation, and was manifest in the flesh." (pp. 203, 204.)

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