# Iv. Of The Coming Of Christ Into This World, And The Purpose For Which He Came.

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Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: IV. OF THE COMING OF CHRIST INTO THIS WORLD, AND THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH HE CAME.



We believe and confess further, that when the
time of the promise, for which all the pious forefathers
had so much longed and waited, had come
and was fulfilled, this previously promised Messiah,
Redeemer, and Savior, proceeded from God, was
sent, and, according to the prediction of the prophets,
and the testimony of the evangelists, came into
the world, yea into the flesh, was made manifest,
and the Word himself became flesh and man; that
he was conceived in the virgin Mary, who was
espoused to a man named Joseph, of the house of
David; and that she brought him forth as her firstborn
son, at Bethlehem, wrapped him in swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a manger. John 4:25;
16:28; 1 Tim. 3:16; John 1:14; Matt. 1:23; Luke
2:7.

We confess and believe also, that this is the same
whose goings forth have been from of old, from
everlasting, without beginning of days, or end of
life; of whom it is testified that he himself is the Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the
first and the last; that he is the same, and no other,
who was foreordained, promised, sent, and came
into the world; who is God’s only, first and own
Son; who was before John the Baptist, before Abraham,
before the world; yea, who was David’s Lord,
and the God of the whole world, the firstborn of
every creature; who was brought into the world,
and to whom a body was prepared, which he yielded
up as a sacrifice and offering, for a sweet savor unto
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God, yea, for the consolation, redemption, and salvation
of all mankind. John 3:16; Heb. 1:6; Rom.
8:32; John 1:30; Matt. 22:43; Col. 1:15; Heb.
10:5.

But as to how and in what manner this precious
body was prepared, and how the Word became
flesh, and he himself man, in regard to this we content
ourselves with the statement pertaining to this
matter which the worthy evangelists have left us in
their accounts, according to which we confess with
all the saints, that he is the Son of the living God,
in whom alone consist all our hope, consolation,
redemption, and salvation, which we neither may
nor must seek in any other. Luke 1:31,32; John
20:31; Matt. 16:16.

We furthermore believe and confess with the
Scriptures, that, when he had finished his course,
and accomplished the work for which he was sent
and came into the world, he was, according to the
providence of God, delivered into the hands of the
unrighteous; suffered under the judge, Pontius Pilate;
was crucified, died, was buried, and, on the
third day, rose from the dead, and ascended to
heaven; and that he sits on the right hand of God
the Majesty on high, whence he will come again to
judge the quick and the dead. Luke 22:53; 23:1;
24:6,7,51.

And that thus the Son of God died, and tasted
death and shed his precious blood for all men; and
that he thereby bruised the serpent’s head, destroyed
the works of the devil, annulled the handwriting
and obtained forgiveness of sins for all mankind;
thus becoming the cause of eternal salvation
for all those who, from Adam unto the end of the
world, each in his time, believe in, and obey him.
Gen. 3:15; 1 John 3:8; Col. 2:14; Rom. 5:18.





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