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F, Mr Ray May 25-1867

ESSAYS ON THE

LIFE AND DOCTRINE OF JESUS CHRIST.

WITH CONTROVERSIAL NOTES

[ John Robert Seen's]

"ECCE HOMO."

By gocepa Perar.

BOSTON:

ROBERTS

BROTHERS.

1867.

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PREFACE..

A CAREFUL consideration of the various points raised in ECCE HOмO induced the present writer to undertake a re-survey of the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ. He found, however, that he could not occupy the stand-point from which Ecce Homo had been written without, as it appeared to him, ignoring the mystery of the Incarnation, and thus putting himself into a false relation to all subsequent facts in Christian history. The following pages will show that on several points the writer finds himself in perfect coincidence with the author of Ecce Homo; and he ventures to believe that on those points upon which the differences are irreconcilable he has not been betrayed into a tone which is inconsistent with the respect due to the finest genius and the frankest candor. In the following pages the writer proceeds upon four convictions:

First: That it is not merely difficult, but absolutely impossible, rightly to survey the Life and Work of Jesus Christ without distinctly acknowledging the unprecedented conditions under which Jesus Christ became incarnate.

Second: That those conditions can alone account for, and are essential to a true interpretation of, the

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