THE incarnation of an infinite God is a shocking absurdity, and an
infinite impossibility. We ask in all solemn earnestness, and in the
name of the intuitive monitions of an unshackled reason and an unbiased
conscience, can any man in his sober senses, who has been in the habit
of reflecting before he believes, entertain for a moment the monstrous
absurdity that the Almighty and Infinite Maker of the universe was once
reduced to a little wailing infant, lying in senseless and helpless
weakness on the lap of its mother, unable to walk a step, or lisp a
word, or do aught but cry with pain or for nourishment stored in the
mother's breast? What! Almighty God fallen from his burnished, dazzling
throne in the lofty heavens, and reduced to helpless, senseless
babyhood! Omnipotence shorn of all power but to breathe, and cry, and
smile! What! that Omniscient Being, who "leads one world by day, and
ten thousand more by night," becoming suddenly transformed into a human
bantling, which knows no higher enjoyment that that of being "pleased
with a rattle, and tickled with a straw!" Who can believe it? Ay, who
dare believe it, if he would escape the charge of blasphemy? Then say
not that "the man Christ Jesus," though standing at the top of the
ladder of moral manhood, and high above the common plane of humanity,
was yet a God--"the Infinite Ruler of the infinite universe." Who can
believe that that Being, whose existence stretches to an eternity beyond
human conception, yea, whom "the heaven of heavens cannot contain," was
ever cooped up in a human body, reduced so near to nothing in dimensions
as to be susceptible (as was Jesus) of being weighed in scales, and
measured with a yardstick?
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