Digital Logos Edition
The lectures contained in The Fatherhood of God were first delivered in 1864 as part of the Cunningham Lecture Series in Edinburgh, Scotland. Candlish revised the lectures for book form, adding detailed notes at the end of each lecture. The following lectures are included: • “The Original Relation of Man to God” • “The Fatherhood of God, as Manifested in the Person of Christ, the Incarnate Word” • “The Fatherhood of God, as Revealed and Known Before the Incarnation” • “The Teaching of Our Lord on His Own and His Brethren’s Sonship” • “The Manner of Entrance into the Relation; Adoption, as Connected with Regeneration and Justification” • “The Privileges and Obligations of Sonship”
“It is in the book of Job, and there only, that the holy unfallen angels are spoken of or referred to as sons of God” (Page 123)
“The subject which I have chosen, with concurrence of the council, is the Fatherhood of God” (Pages 4–5)
“Wherefore, that this might be, the Word was made flesh, that he might make man capable of receiving the Deity.… From this it may be shewn that we are not by nature sons, but the Son in us; and again, that God is not our father by nature, but (the father) of the Word in us, in whom and through whom we cry, Abba, Father.” (Page xvi)
“To what extent was the fatherhood of God matter of human knowledge, or matter of divine revelation, before the coming of his son Jesus Christ in the flesh?” (Page 112)
“He would be our father, not as we are the fathers of our children, but as he is the father of his Son Jesus Christ” (Page 150)