Excerpt from Inward Life in Outward Troubles: A Sermon Preached at the Anniversary of the Dedication of the Church of S. Matthias, Stoke Newington, June 13, 1855 Heaven in the completeness of every member, rises up before us. There are two different aspects under which the mystery is here presented to us or rather, there are two stages of its progress. First, in our lord Him self, as distinct from His Church. From the period of His Conception till His Ascension, the Divine Hu manity was limited to His own Person. He alone was, during that period, the Vine. Into His own single Person He assumed the complete Manhood, and fulfilled all the functions of our created nature. As yet His life had not passed beyond Himself. It is true that the power of His Divine Humanity had been extended, and become a source of healing: once it is expressly written, that virtue had gone out of Him.1 But His actual life - His substance - had not as yet been imparted to any, nor had He taken others into Himself. It is true, also, that as in Adam there were the germs Of the whole race of man, to spring thence forward out of his bins, and as in a true sense we lived in Adam, and were involved in all his acts, SO in a true sense the germs of the whole redeemed race - the many members yet unborn - lay as an undeveloped substance within the Humanity of our Loan, and in Him lived, though visible only to His Eye Who sees the end in the beginning. But He was as yet the Vine, without the Branches. He was then seen alone, separate from His brethren, as the perfect Standard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.