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the race of David the prophet, as God had promised him; He saved us with
power and authority and guided us to the light of God and He fulfilled the
obedience [due] to Him; He was mercy to His creatures. Isaiah also
prophesied by the Holy Ghost about the birth of the Christ, saying, "A
Maiden shall be with child, and shall bear a son and He shall be called
Emmanuel, the interpretation of which is Our God with us." The
Maiden is the Virgin who is of the race of Adam. She gave birth to the
Christ, Emmanuel, God of God, and mercy to His creatures. We do not hear of
one man from Adam till this our day who was called "God with us"
or who was called the Word of God. He was born of a Virgin without any man
touching her. Is not He the Christ? and do they not lie regarding what God
has bestowed on creatures in the Christ? Isaiah also prophesied by the Holy
Ghost about the birth of the Christ, saying, "To us a Child is born,
and He gave us Him by His authority, and His name shall be called King of
glorious counsel, Wonderful, Counsellor, the Strong God, the Mighty, the
Prince of Peace, the Everlasting Father." God shewed by the tongue of
Isaiah His prophet that the Child that should he born to men is the Christ,
who shewed Himself to us God of God and mercy. When the Prophet says, the
Strong God, the Mighty, the Wonderful Counsellor, the Everlasting Father;
this is the Judge. What child was born among men since the day that God
created men and the world until this day of men who was called the Strong
God or the Everlasting Father, or of whom it was said that his government
was upon his shoulders, and this because He was God of God, was there not
government upon Him? Doubt not, O man, about the Christ. Let not His
humility mislead thee. By this He raised us to the Kingdom of Heaven, and He
overthrew Satan beneath the feet of His saints. What is the punishment of
him who falsifies the word of God by the tongues of His prophets? Let us fly
for refuge to God from this and ask Him to make us of those who believe His
word and the word of His prophets. Verily this is mercy and favour from God
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