Philip Schaff - History of the Christian church (1838)

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The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

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Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

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The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

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The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records.

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The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

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The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

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The Son of God, prompted by the same infinite love, laid aside his divine glory and mode of existence, emptied himself exchanged the form of God for the form of a servant, humbled himself and became obedient, even unto the death of the cross.

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