Life in a Risen Saviour

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“It has respect to one particular view of the resurrection; its bearing on the believer’s spiritual and eternal life.” (Page v)

“The articles of the creed on which he insisted were few and plain—‘Christ died; he was buried; he rose again.’” (Page 14)

“He puts them in remembrance of what it once was to them. He points out what it must still be to them, if they are not to stultify or falsify their whole Christian profession.” (Page 2)

“Yes; the apostle virtually says to the Corinthians, you may be thoroughly assured that none of those refinements on the gospel system—none of those fresh and original exhibitions of it, whether in the new light of a higher philosophy, or on the field of a wider and larger philanthropy—which have a certain attraction for you in certain modes of mind;—none of them have the element of stability; none of them have power to impart the security which the gospel itself, rightly apprehended, gives; in none of them can you stand at all so safely, or so surely, or so uprightly, as in it.” (Page 8)

“The resurrection of Christ and the general resurrection are so related to one another, that they stand or fall together. If Christ is risen, then the dead rise; if the dead rise not, then is Christ not raised.” (Page 35)