Metadata
Title
Gilbert Tennent sermons 68, On Galatians 4:4-5, 1745
Date
1745/1760
Digital Identifier
PHS.TennentSermons068
Description
Gilbert Tennent (1703-1764) was an Irish-American Presbyterian clergyman, and one of the leaders of the Great Awakening.
Tennent wrote this sermon on Galatians 4:4-5, "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."
From dates noted in the manuscript, it looks like Tennent wrote this sermon in 1745, then delivered it again in 1747, 1749, 1752, and 1760.
Tennent wrote this sermon on Galatians 4:4-5, "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."
From dates noted in the manuscript, it looks like Tennent wrote this sermon in 1745, then delivered it again in 1747, 1749, 1752, and 1760.
Subject
Place
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Congregation
Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Holding Institution
Presbyterian Historical Society
Extent
22 pages
Format (Digital)
tiff
Rights
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
eng
Type
Text
Abstract
On Galatians 4:4-5 takes its title from the Bible citation at the top of page 1. This is a Nativity sermon, high-minded, devotional, full of definition and detail. It reminds hearers that Jesus is the only begotten son of God by eternal regeneration, continually born again from God's essence, not an angel created by God, and not an adopted son as the baptized are.
God decreed the appearance of Jesus as a man, servant of God meant as the Second Adam to fulfil his martyrdom and realize his mediator role. The time of his coming was when the known world was in social turmoil and decadence; he came to set the example for recovery of morality and right living.
Presents an elaborate tapestry of the special qualities of Jesus and Mary, woven from the prophecies of the Old Testaments as interpreted in the Gospels and by early Church Fathers. Explores the paradoxes of Jesus's coming, and the miracles well within God's power. Urges those who celebrate not to go to excess during Christmas twelve days but to remember it solemnly and thankfully. These last lines do not however close the sermon.
Revised at least twice, from some previously numbered lists of discussion points to connected prose, and some punctuation supplied. Deletions and rephrasings, making sentences at times difficult to read and sequence. Shows clear struggles to be exact.
Pp. 18 over to 19 partially re-written and numbered in scanning as pages, but appears to be a leaf inserted but not pasted down so that the retained portion of p. 17 in the original can be read.
God decreed the appearance of Jesus as a man, servant of God meant as the Second Adam to fulfil his martyrdom and realize his mediator role. The time of his coming was when the known world was in social turmoil and decadence; he came to set the example for recovery of morality and right living.
Presents an elaborate tapestry of the special qualities of Jesus and Mary, woven from the prophecies of the Old Testaments as interpreted in the Gospels and by early Church Fathers. Explores the paradoxes of Jesus's coming, and the miracles well within God's power. Urges those who celebrate not to go to excess during Christmas twelve days but to remember it solemnly and thankfully. These last lines do not however close the sermon.
Revised at least twice, from some previously numbered lists of discussion points to connected prose, and some punctuation supplied. Deletions and rephrasings, making sentences at times difficult to read and sequence. Shows clear struggles to be exact.
Pp. 18 over to 19 partially re-written and numbered in scanning as pages, but appears to be a leaf inserted but not pasted down so that the retained portion of p. 17 in the original can be read.
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