hood. The second Man is God Incarnate, and our manhood in Him is deified. It was humanity in all things such as ours, yet without sin, taken of the substance of a sinless Mother, pure and blessed as the virgin earth before sin entered. The Incarnation was the new creation of God. S. Paul so writes: "God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ."[1] He was, in a twofold fulness, the image of God. He was the eternal Image of the Father as God; and the reflected Image of God as man. The original and the likeness in Him were united; and the glory of His countenance is the Light of the World. "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in times past to the Fathers, by the Prophets, last of all, in these days hath spoken to us by His Son, whom He hath appointed Heir of all things, by whom also He made the world."[2] All the lights of nature and of reason, and of continual revelation by prophets and seers ascended into the full and final revelation of God by Jesus Christ, "the brightness of His glory, and the figure of His substance."[3] All holiness, justice, wisdom, mercy, humility, charity, sympathy, and
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