An edition of Creation centred in Christ
(1896)
Creation centred in Christ
[Vol. I]
by Henry Grattan Guinness
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Table of Contents
Title page
Contents ... iii
Page n10
Introduction ... xiii-xxxix
Page n20
1.
PART I. NATURE.
1.1.
[Part I] CHAPTER I. Nature's Witness to God ... 3
Page 3
1.1.1.
Five views of the origin of the universe —
1.1.1.1.
1. The Polytheistic ... 4
1.1.1.2.
2. The Pantheistic ... 4
1.1.1.3.
3. The Atheistic ... 5
1.1.1.4.
4. The Agnostic ... 6
1.1.1.5.
5. The Theistic ... 7
2.
PART II. REVELATION.
2.1.
[Part II] CHAPTER I. The Need of Revelation ... 15
Page 15
2.1.1.
I. Moral Evil ... 15
2.1.1.1.
1. Man Approves the Better ... 15
2.1.1.2.
2. Man, though he Approves the Better, Follows the Worse ... 18
2.1.2.
II. Physical Evil, or Disorders in External Nature ... 20
2.1.3.
III. The Inability of Man to Remove Moral and Physical Evil, and to Restore the World ... 21
2.1.3.1.
1. The Failure of Natural Religion ... 21
2.1.3.2.
2. The Failure of Philosophy ... 22
2.2.
[Part II] CHAPTER II. The Existence and Evidence of Revelation ... 24
Page 24
2.2.1.
I. External Evidences ... 29
2.2.1.1.
1. The Civil History of the Jews ... 29
2.2.1.2.
2. The Religious History of the Jews ... 30
2.2.1.3.
3. The Relation of Judaism to Christianity ... 31
2.2.1.4.
4. The Miracles of Christ and His Apostles ... 33
2.2.1.5.
5. The Prophecies in the New Testament ...
2.2.2.
II. Internal Evidences 34
2.2.2.1.
1. The Superiority of the Religion of the Bible to all other Religions of the World ... 34
2.2.2.2.
2. The Superiority of the Christian Religion to Judaism ... 35
2.2.2.3.
3. The Superiority of the Christian Religion to Philosophy ... 36
2.2.2.4.
4. The Character of Christ ... 37
2.2.2.5.
5. The Conversion and Character of Paul the Apostle ... 41
2.2.2.6.
6. The Evidence of Experience ... 43
(1) The fact of Spiritual Illumination ... 43
(2) The fact of Moral Renovation ... 44
(3) The Outward Historical Proof ... 44
(4) Combination of Evidences ... 45
3.
PART III. THE CONNECTION OF THE NATURAL AND REVEALED; OR, CREATION CENTRED IN CHRIST. Testimony of Scripture ... 49
3.1.
[Part III] CHAPTER I. Centralization in the Natural and in the Revealed ... 56
Page 56
3.1.1.
[Pt. III, Ch. I] Sec. I. Centralization in Nature ... 56
3.1.1.1.
I. The Heliocentric Principle ... 56
3.1.1.1.1.
1. The Sun as the Centre of Motion ... 62
3.1.1.1.2.
2. The Sun as the Centre of Light and Heat ... 63
3.1.1.1.3.
3. The Heliocentric Principle in the Stellar System ... 64
3.1.1.2.
II. The Law of Gravity ... 67
3.1.1.3.
III. Centralization in the Mineral World ... 70
3.1.1.4.
IV. Centralization in the Organic World ... 70
3.1.1.4.1.
1. Centralization in the Vegetable World ... 71
3.1.1.4.2.
2. CentraUzation in the Animal World ... 72
3.1.1.4.3.
3. Law of Dual Centralization ... 73
3.1.1.5.
V. Centralization in the Moral World ... 75
3.1.1.6.
VI. The Central Principle ... 77
3.1.1.7.
VII. The Hierarchical Character of the System of Nature ... 77
3.1.1.7.1.
1. Inorganic Nature Subserves the Organized World ... 78
3.1.1.7.2.
2. In the Vegetable Kingdom Inferior Forms of Life Subserve Superior Forms ... 78
3.1.1.7.3.
3. The Vegetable Kingdom Subserves the Animal ... 79
3.1.1.7.4.
4. Lower Animal Races Subserve the Interests of Higher ... 80
3.1.1.7.5.
5. The Material World Subserves the Mental ... 80
3.1.1.7.6.
6. The Physical Subserves the Moral ... 81
3.1.1.7.7.
7. In the Realm of Mind all is Subordinated to Moral Law ... 81
3.1.1.8.
VIII. Continuity of the Natural System with the Revealed ... 82
3.1.2.
[Pt. III, Ch. I] Sec. II. Centralization in Revelation ... 84
Page 84
3.1.2.1.
I. The Bible is the Book of Redemption ... 84
3.1.2.2.
II. The Bible is Characterized by the Unity of its Theme ... 84
3.1.2.3.
III. The Bible History of Redemption presents a Harmonious, Comprehensive Series of Providential Acts ... 84
3.1.2.4.
IV. The Person of the Redeemer is the Centre of Revelation ... 85
3.1.2.5.
V. The Mediatorial Principle is the Centre of Theology ... 85
3.1.2.6.
VI. The Central Facts in Redemption are the Death and Resurrection of Christ ... 88
3.1.2.7.
VII. The New Testament has a Threefold Doctrinal and Historic Division or Progress ... 89
3.1.2.8.
VIII. The Three Steps in the Progress of New Testament Doctrine and History correspond with Stages in the Gathering together of all things in Christ ... 92
3.1.2.9.
IX. The Central Principle in the Entire Work of Redemption is the Principle of Love ... 95
3.2.
[Part III] CHAPTER II. Centralization in the Relation of the Natural to the Revealed ... 98
Page 98
3.2.1.
I. Law of Analogy ... 98
3.2.1.1.
[Pt. III, Ch. II] Sec. I. Analogy in Nature ... 100
3.2.1.1.1.
1. Analogy in Form ... 101
(1) In Mineral Substances ... 101
(2) In Organized Objects ... 102
(a) Analogy in the Structure of Plants ... 103
(b) Analogy in the Structure of Animals ... 104
3.2.1.1.2.
2. Analogy in Number ... 106
(1) In the Law of Gravitation ... 106
(2) In the Chemical Composition of all Natural Substances ... 107
(3) Laws of Gravimetric Ratio ... 109
(4) Number in Relation to the Forms of Crystals ... 110
(5) Number in the Vegetable World ... 110
(6) Number in the Animal World ... 111
3.2.1.1.3.
3. Analogy in Time ... 112
(1) The Periodic Times of the Planets ... 112
(2) Vital Periodicity ... 112
3.2.1.1.4.
4. Analogy of Lower Kingdoms to Higher ... 114
(1) Mineral and Vegetable Worlds ... 114
(2) Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms ... 116
(3) Man and the Lower Animals ... 116
Summary Statement of the Law of Analogy ... 117
3.2.1.2.
[Pt. III, Ch. II] Sec. II. Analogy in Revelation ... 119
Page 119
3.2.1.2.1.
1. The Language of the Bible is to a considerable extent Analogical ... 119
3.2.1.2.2.
2. The Bible sets forth Divine Truth by means of Visions, Symbols, Types, and Parables ... 119
3.2.1.2.3.
3. The widespread Use of Typology in the Bible is plainly and repeatedly Stated in the Volume itself 119
3.2.1.2.4.
4. There is a Harmony and Far-reaching Progress in the Use of Analogy in Scripture ... 121
Convergence of Analogies ... 123
1. Types Relating to the Person of Christ ... 123
2. Types Relating to the Offices of Christ ... 124
3. Types concerning the Work of Christ ... 124
Convergence of Types and Prophecies in Christ ... 125
Christ the Prototype of the New Life of the Regenerate ... 126
1. Christ is the Prototype of the New Nature and Holy Life of the Regenerate ... 126
2. The History of Christ is the Prototype of the History the Regenerate ... 128
3.2.1.3.
[Pt. III, Ch. II] Sec. III. Analogy of the Natural to the Revealed ... 131
Page 131
1. Analogy of the Physical Order in Nature to the Mental and Moral ... 131
2. Recognition and Use of this Analogy in Poetical Language ... 132
3. Analogy of the Sensible to the Mental and Spiritual, as Exhibited in the Language of Revelation ... 132
4. Analogy of the Natural to the Revealed in the Absence on the Surface of Systematic Arrangement 134
5. Analogy in the Association of Clearness and Obscurity ... 135
6. Analogy in the Presence of an Ordered Constitution ... 136
7. Analogy in the Existence of a Hierarchical Order ... 136
8. Analogy in the Prevalence of the Principle of Union ... 137
9. Analogy in the fact of a Mono-centric Order ... 138
10. Analogy in the Reign of the Prospective Principle ... 140
11. Analogy in the Existence of a Progressive Plan ... 141
12. Analogy in the Existence of a Series of Dispensations ... 141
13. Analogy in the Presence of Prophetic Types ... 142
14. Analogy in the Prevalence of the Parental Relation ... 144
15. Analogy in the Reign of the Retributive Principle ... 144
16. Analogy in the Operation of the Remedial Principle ... 146
17. Analogy in the Presence of the Vicarious Principle ... 149
18. Analogy in the Indwelling or Temple Principle ... 150
19. Analogy in the Place of the Intuitional Principle ... 151
20. Analogy in the Operation of the Inner Law Principle ... 153
21. Analogy as to the Principle of Progressive Liberation ... 156
22. Analogy as to an Ascending Order of Increasing Complexity ... 157
23. Analogy as to the Principle of Conflict ... 158
24. Analogy in the Reign of the Palingenetic Principle ... 161
3.2.1.4.
Conclusion 162
II. The Analogy of Phenomena in Nature and Revelation, Exhibited in the Foregoing Section, involves Identity of Law ... 162
2. The Laws or Principles here grouped together as common to Nature and Revelation are Leading Laws in both systems ... 163
3. The Analogy thus Traced between the Natural and the Revealed involves the Archetypal Character of the latter ... 163
4. The Analogy Traced Exhibits the Convergence of Types, both Natural and Revealed, to one Central Archetype ... 163
3.2.1.5.
Summary 165
3.2.2.
[Pt. III, Ch. II] II. Law of Adjustment ... 166
3.2.2.1.
I. Adjustment in Nature ... 167
Page 167
1. Adjustment of Inorganic Masses ... 167
2. Adjustment of Chemical Elements ... 169
3. Adjustment of the Inorganic to the Organized ... 170
4. Adjustment of Parts and Functions in Organized Bodies ... 170
5. Mutual Adjustment of Classes in Organized Nature ... 173
6. Adjustment of Lower Kingdoms to Higher, the Mineral to the Vegetable, and the Vegetable to the Animal ... 173
7. Adjustment of Periodic Times ... 174
8. Adjustment of the Physical to the Mental and Moral World ... 175
3.2.2.2.
II. Adjustment in the Mutual Relation of the Natural and Revealed ... 177
Page 177
I. The Geological Adjustment ... 178
1. Outline of the Facts of Geology ... 180
2. Geology Teaches that the Antiquity of the Earth is Great Beyond Conception ... 184
3. Geology, while it takes us back very far, Teaches us Nothing of the Origin of the Earth ... 186
4. Geology bears clear Testimony to a Begin [?] Life, a Commencement of Organized Existences ... 189
5. Geology shows that there have been several Distinct Successive Economies of Life, Terminating in Man ... 191
6. Geology Teaches us that Man is the Archetype of the Animal Creation ... 193
7. Geology Shows us that During all the Long Succession of Ages Prior to Man's Appearance on the Earth, God was Making Preparation for his Physical Wants ... 194
8. An Anticipation of Death — the Wages of Sin Runs through the Geologic Ages ... 199
9. In the Order of Succession of its Animal Kingdoms Geology Presents us with a Remarkable Foreshadowing of Human History ... 202
10. The Unsuitability of Man as a Corrupt and Mortal Being to be the Goal of the Divinely Directed Movement of Geologic or Terrestrial Advance ... 209
11. The Appearance in History of a New and Nobler Type of Man, Realizing the Ideal of Perfect Likeness to the Divine Image, and Fitness for the Goal of the Geologic, or Telluric, Progress ... 213
(I.) The Second Man ... 215
Life and Character of Christ ... 217
(1) The Sinlessness of Christ ... 219
(2) Christ's Claim to be Divine ... 224
(II.) The New Race ... 228
12. The Anticipation in Prophecy of a Universal and Eternal Kingdom of God, the Final Scene in the Long Series of Dispensations introduced by the Geologic Ages ... 231
II. The Historical Adjustment ... 241
Christ the Centre of History ... 241
1. Christ the Centre of Jewish and Christian History ... 241
2. Christ the Centre of Gentile History ... 246
(1) Central Period in Roman History ... 246
(2) Relation of the Roman Empire to the Christian Church ... 246
3. The Dicentric Character of History as Related to the First and Second Advents of Christ ... 248
4. The Central Position of the Work of Redemption as the End to which all the Great Events of History are Adjusted ... 249
(1) Separation of a Particular Nation to Prepare for Christ's Coming ... 250
(2) Four great Gentile Empires Preceding the Kingdom of God ... 251
(3) Preparation and Dispersion of the Greek Language ... 251
(4) Demonstration of the Inadequacy of Philosophy ... 251
(5) The Dispersion of the Jews ... 251
(6) The Destruction of Jerusalem ... 252
(7) The Overthrow of Heathenism in the Roman Empire ... 252
(8) The Invasion and Overthrow of the Empire of Western Rome by the Goths and Vandals ... 252
(9) Parallel History of the Papal and Mohammedan Powers ... 252
(10) Preservation of a Succession of Faithful Witnesses to Gospel Truth ... 252
(11) The Reformation ... 253
(12) The English Revolution ... 253
(13) Second Stage of the English Revolution in 1688 ... 253
(14) The Foundation of the American Republic ... 254
(15) The French Revolution ... 254
(16) Revival of Spiritual Religion in the Eighteenth Century 255
(17) Present Evangelization of the World by Missionary Effort ... 255
3.2.2.2.3.
III. The Astronomical Adjustment ... 257
Page 257
I. Number in the Bible ... 257
1. Use of Threefold Numbers in Scripture ... 258
2. Of Fourfold Measures ... 260
3. Combination of Threefold with Fourfold in Sevenfold ... 262
4. Use of Sevenfold Numbers ... 263
5. Twelvefold Numbers ... 264
6. Fivefold and Tenfold Numbers ... 266
7. Palingenetic Numbers ... 267
II. Analogy ijt Revealed Times ... 270
Levitical Times ... 272
1. The Week of Days ... 272
2. The Week of Weeks ... 274
3. The Week of Months ... 274
4. The Week of Years ... 275
5. The Week of Weeks of Years ... 276
Prophetic Times ... 277
6. The Week of Decades ... 277
7. The Week of Weeks of Decades ... 278
8. The Week of Years of Years ... 279
Palingenetic Times ... 280
Conspectus of Revealed Times ... 284
III. Scientific Basis of the Chronology of the Four Empires ... 292
Astronomical Canon of Ptolemy ... 292
IV. Chronology of our Lord's Passion ... 299
Year of our Lord's Passion ... 301
1. Relation of the Central Dates in Christ's Redeeming Work to the Principal Dates in the Levitical Calendar ... 302
2. Relation of the Period of Christ's Ministry and the Time of His Death to the "70 Weeks" of Prophecy ... 303
3. Interval from the Nabonassar Era, February 26, B.C. 747, the Starting Point of the Canon of Ptolemy, to the year of our Lord's Passion, a.d. 29 ... 306
4. Interval of 1,260 Lunar Years (15,120 Lunations) from the Era of Nabonassar, February 26, B.C. 747, to the Fall of Romulus Augustulus (end of the Western Roman Empire), August 22, a.d. 476 ... 309
5. Interval of 15,120 Days, or 42 Prophetic Years, from Palm Sunday, A.D. 29, to the day of the Conflagration of the Temple, A.D. 70 ... 312
6. Interval of 57 Days from Palm Sunday to Pentecost Sunday ... 314
V. Adjustment of Natural Times io Revealed ... 317
Chronological Adjustments in Nature ... 317
1. Incommensurateness of the Primary Terrestrial Time Units ... 320
2. Cyclical Character of the Prophetic Times. Discoveries of M. de Cheseaux ... 324
3. Messianic Time System ... 331
(I.) Central Chronological Elements ... 331
(II.) Vital Periodicity ... 332
(III.) Ratio of Vital Periodicity to Historic ... 334
(IV.) Adjustment of Epact Chronology to the 33 fold Ratio ... 338
(V.) Astronomic Measures of the 33 fold Ratio ... 338
(VI.) Modification of the i Month to 1,000 Days Epact Ratio in Harmony with Messianic and Prophetic Times ... 338
(VII.) Adjustment of Solar Epact to the 70 Years' Cycle ... 340
(VIII.) Relation of the 2,300 Years' Prophetic Period to the most Central and Fundamental Cycles connected with the Two Forms of Epact ... 343
(IX.) Foundation for a Correct Calendar in the 2,300 Years' Cycle ... 343
(X.) The Arithmetical and Astronomical Character of the Prophetic Period of 2,520 Years, or "Seven Times" ... 345
(XI.) Application of the 33 fold Vito-historic Ratio to the Period of the Four Prophetic Empires ... 348
Calendar of "the Times of the Gentiles" ... 351
(XII.) Adjustment of the Planetary Periods to Redemption Chronology ... 354
Revolutions of —
(a) Mercury ... 356
(d) Venus ... 360
(c) Mars ... 364
(d) Jupiter ... 367
(e) Saturn ... 368
(f) Uranus and Neptune ... 369
Revolutions of the Sun, Moon, and Planets in the Times of the Gentiles ... 371
Historical Dates in the Course of the Four Empires Reckoned from the Nabonassar Era ... 377
Solar and Lunar Tables Based on the Prophetic Times ... 379
3.2.2.2.4.
IV. The Moral Adjustment ... 382
Page 382
Human Aspects of the Work of Redemption ... 382
Wider Aspects of the Moral Adjustment. — Relation of Redemption to Fallen and Unfallen Angels ... 387
The Fall and Expulsion of Satan ... 388
The Ministry of Holy Angels ... 400
Magnitude and Unity of the Sidereal System ... 408
A Night Visit to the Observatory ... 409
A Day Visit to the Observatory ... 415
A Glance at the Instrument of Spiritual Perception — the Christian Consciousness ... 421
General View of the Moral Adjustment ... 432
Summary of the Argument ... 436
Conclusion ... 454
I. The Harmonization of Religion and Science ... 454
II. The Harmonization of Revelation and Nature ... 470
1. Confirmation of the Christo-Centric Principle ... 470
2. Application of the Christo-Centric Principle ... 479
Appendix ... 505
Page 505
Explanatory of the Tables in Vol. II.
Edition Notes
No visible notice of copyright; stated date is 1896.
Publishing year is in roman numerals: MDCCCXCVI.
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