Publication
Philadelphia: Printed by T.W. Ustick, No. 49, Prune Street, 1834.
Physical description
24 p.; 20 cm
Notes
Removed from a nonce volume; stitch holes at inner margin, not touching text. Previous owner's penciled notations in outer margin of title page and at lower margin of final leaf; ink jottings in margins and lightly penciled "x" marks in text area throughout. Light fold-mark down center.
Sermon text: Philippians 2:6-11. - "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Editions of Christ, the Mediator:
1833 - First edition, Charleston [SC]: s.n. Pb, 24 p.
1834 - Second edition, Richmond [VA]: Printed by T.W. White. Pb, 24 p. [Note: error in binding, with p. 9-16 bound in the wrong order.]
1834 - Philadelphia: Printed by T.W. Ustick. Pb, 24 p.
1836 - An excerpt from the sermon appeared in The Charleston Observer, 10.50 (Dec. 1836): 198, under the title "The Two-fold Nature of Christ."
1841 - Fourth edition, Philadelphia: Printed by T.K. & P.G. Collins. Pb, 24 p.
Lastly, included as Sermon no. III in A Series of Revival Sermons (1846), pp. 68-106. This latter work has been reprinted in the modern era.
Opening words:
"By the mediatorial character of Christ, we are to understand, not his essential, but his official character--that, which he, as Mediator, sustains in the economy of man's redemption. Had man never existed; or, existing, had never fallen; or fallen, had never been redeemed, the eternal Son of God had never assumed the name of Jesus Christ, the anointed Saviour, or Mediator. This is unquestionably that new name spoken of in the Revelations, and that name, which is above every name, made mention of in our text. Entering upon the glorious works of man's redemption, he performs new offices, assumes a new name, and sustains a new character. This character is commonly denominated his mediatorial character. The scope of the passage now before us, will lead me to speak, however, not so much of those offices which go to form the mediatorial character, as of that union of the divine and human nature in the person of Christ, upon which the mediatorial character is based, and which indeed gives to it all its sweetness, and dignity, and perfection." [p. 3-4]
Sermon text: Philippians 2:6-11. - "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Editions of Christ, the Mediator:
1833 - First edition, Charleston [SC]: s.n. Pb, 24 p.
1834 - Second edition, Richmond [VA]: Printed by T.W. White. Pb, 24 p. [Note: error in binding, with p. 9-16 bound in the wrong order.]
1834 - Philadelphia: Printed by T.W. Ustick. Pb, 24 p.
1836 - An excerpt from the sermon appeared in The Charleston Observer, 10.50 (Dec. 1836): 198, under the title "The Two-fold Nature of Christ."
1841 - Fourth edition, Philadelphia: Printed by T.K. & P.G. Collins. Pb, 24 p.
Lastly, included as Sermon no. III in A Series of Revival Sermons (1846), pp. 68-106. This latter work has been reprinted in the modern era.
Opening words:
"By the mediatorial character of Christ, we are to understand, not his essential, but his official character--that, which he, as Mediator, sustains in the economy of man's redemption. Had man never existed; or, existing, had never fallen; or fallen, had never been redeemed, the eternal Son of God had never assumed the name of Jesus Christ, the anointed Saviour, or Mediator. This is unquestionably that new name spoken of in the Revelations, and that name, which is above every name, made mention of in our text. Entering upon the glorious works of man's redemption, he performs new offices, assumes a new name, and sustains a new character. This character is commonly denominated his mediatorial character. The scope of the passage now before us, will lead me to speak, however, not so much of those offices which go to form the mediatorial character, as of that union of the divine and human nature in the person of Christ, upon which the mediatorial character is based, and which indeed gives to it all its sweetness, and dignity, and perfection." [p. 3-4]