Stuart Robinson on the kingship and priesthood of Christ

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A clear apprehension of this truth, that Jesus Christ is a King—Founder and Head of the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, is fundamental to any proper understanding, either of the spirit and language of the Scriptures, or of the nature and relations of the Christian life. Through the whole revealed scheme of Redemption, this truth runs parallel with the truth of the Priesthood of Christ.

Nay, it is rather the essential form of that truth, and therefore the essential form of the Gospel itself. For “Christ crucified,” according to the apostle, is not merely a doctrine contained in the Gospel; it is the Gospel itself; the one idea of all the revelation which God has made of himself. As in the physical structure of man, the blood, driven by the heart to every extremity of his system, imparts to every atom the vitality without which it would be only so much dead clay: so in the structure of God’s revealed truth. ...

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