An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus ChristTaylor, John
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An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Taylor, John
Atonement -- Mormon Church; Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
Again, on this continent, one of the Nephite Prophets, Jacob, the son
of Lehi, records: "We truly can command in the name of Jesus, and the
very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea."
(Jacob, iv, 6.) By faith the brother of Jared, who held this power,
said unto the mountain Zerin, Remove; and it was removed;[A] by it
Alma and Amulek caused the walls of the prison in Ammonihah to tumble
to the ground;[B] by it Nephi and Lehi wrought the surpassing change
upon the Lamanites that they were baptized with fire and the Holy
Ghost;[C] by it Amnion and his brethren wrought so great a miracle in
the conversion of the Lamanites;[D] and by it also the disciples of
Jesus who tarried amongst the Nephites showed forth the power spoken
of in the following passage:
[Footnote A: Ether, xii, 30]
[Footnote B: Alma, xiv, 26-29.]
[Footnote C: Helaman, v, 43-49.]
[Footnote D: Alma, xvii-xxvii.]
"Therefore they did exercise power and authority over the disciples of
Jesus who did tarry with them, and they did cast them into prison: but
by the power of the word of God, which was in them, the prisons were
rent in twain, and they went forth doing mighty miracles among them.
Nevertheless, and notwithstanding all these miracles, the people did
harden their hearts, and did seek to kill them, even as the Jews at
Jerusalem sought to kill Jesus, according to his word; and they did
cast them into furnaces of fire, and they came forth receiving no
harm; and they also cast them into dens of wild beasts, and they did
play with the wild beasts even as a child with a lamb; and they did
come forth from among them, receiving no harm."--4 Nephi, i, 30-33.
This same power has also been abundantly manifested in these latter
days in the midst of the Saints of God, in deliverances from evil, in
escapes from enemies, in the quelling of mobs, in the stilling of the
angry waves of the sea, in the healing of the sick, in the casting out
of unclean spirits, and in many other miraculous manifestations of the
power and goodness of God, and of the authority with which He has
invested His servants who are endowed and clothed upon with the
Priesthood, which is endless and after the order of the Son of God.
Thus, through the atonement of Jesus, and the salvation and redemption
brought about by that atonement these wonderful manifestations and
deliverances have been accomplished by faith in God; and the
Priesthood being after the order of the Son of God, and proceeding
from Him, through the atonement, those who held this Priesthood
possessed, according to their faith, the above mentioned powers; and
without that atonement this power never could have existed, for men
without that sacrifice could not have been brought into that
relationship to God, by which they would have the right, the power and
authority to act in His name, or to be His representatives to fallen
humanity.
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