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70 A CLOUD OF WITNESSES. 

THE GLORIFICATION OF CHRIST.

" The great fundamental doctrine of the New Testament is this: In order to redeem and save mankind, God took upon Himself a human nature, which was born of the virgin Mary; through victories in temptation, this human nature became more and more fully one with the Divine nature; until, perfected through sufferings, it was filled with all the fullness of the Godhead, and exalted far above all heavens to be the everlasting medium of Divine influences to angels and men.

" This process, by which the human nature of Christ was made one with the Divine which dwelt within it, is termed the glorification of Christ. It consisted in the opening of his human capacities, by the continuous removal of all inherited conditions •that could limit or resist the influx of the Divine life; and in the continuous descent of the fullness of the Godhead from the inmost even to the ultimates of the perfected humanity, until the human consciousness became altogether one with the Divine. The real operator was God working in the human nature in which He was incarnate; for Jesus received continually from the Divine Father who dwelt in Him, the power both to will and to do." (p. 239.)

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