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Excerpt from Lectures Introductory to the Study of the Gospels
Then, too, the devil will be cast out, and the dumb speak, 69. The Lord of the harvest in prospect of His rejection, 69. The mission of the apostles strictly Jewish, 70. John the Baptist's enquiry, 71. Was it on his own account, or on behalf of others? 72. Jesus vindicates Himself and John, 73. Man's capricious unbelief, 74. Rejection of Jesus in His lower glory does but vindicate His higher, 75. Rejection, morally complete in His life, outwardly fulfilled in His death, 76. Lowly, noiseless grace in presence of blasphemous contempt, 77. This fellow, 78. Seven devils and new relationships, 79. The kingdom of heaven during the interval of Christ's rejection, 80. Outside, or the rise of what was little in its greatness till it becomes great in its littleness, 80. The kingdom, viewed according to divine thoughts, inside, 80. A type of the kingdom during the Lord's intercession in heaven, 81. Another twofold picture, 82. Tradition rejected, and extradition admitted, 83. The dawn of the Church consequent on Israel's hopeless unbelief in Messiah, 84. The Father's revelation of the Son in Peter's confession, and the Lord's also as a consequence, 85. Peter's mistake, Christ's glory, the disciples' defeat, 86. Peter's zeal for his Master's dignity compromising it, 87. The kingdom and the Church, 88. Christ maintains the proprieties of nature in their rights and integrity, 89. Nothing too great for us, nothing too little for God - win and by Jesus, 90. When man does his best, how far has he get beyond himself? 91. God's right and title to act according to His goodness shewn in the parable of the house holder, 92. The crisis, or the final presentation of the Lord to Jerusalem, 93. III.
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