thus, together, and in indissoluble union with each other, accomplished the whole counsel and purpose of God.

So essential was it to the salvation of mankind, that the Godhead and Manhood of the Redeemer should thus in every case be associated together, that had the one or the other been wanting, Man could never have been redeemed. Had his recovery, indeed, been a question of Divine Power merely, Omnipotence could not have required the conjoint agency of Man; or, had the question at issue been one of Mercy only, Humanity would not have needed the Omnipotence of God; but this was a point of Justice! as well as of Mercy and Power; and the Divine Rights

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never were, from all eternity, nor ever can be, violated with impunity. Never was the Justice of Jehovah,-nor can it ever be, ultimately defeated in its righteous claims. To sustain the final derogation of any of His divine Prerogatives, is impossible with God! The Equity of the Deity, then, required indispensably, that in justifying the ungodly, HE should be JUST INFLEXIBLY JUST!

Therefore in the fulness of the time, the destined Victim was begotten and born; truly human, holy, and immortal: he obeyed perfectly, fulfilling all righteousness,-taught infallibly, declaring the way of God in truth,-administered innumerable Blessings, opening the eyes of the F 2 blind,

blind, healing the sick, and raising the dead,-suffered indescribable agonies, both of body and mind,-endured inconceivable insults, being mocked, buffetted, and spat upon,-wept, with strong cries and tears,-groaned in spirit,--and voluntarily died ;-whilst his indwelling and associated Divinity, mysteriously united to the Manhood, stamped an impression of all-suffirient value and importance, both upon his Life and his Death! accomaanving att that he taught, as a Prophet,-all that he did and suffered, as a Priest, and all that be enjoined, as a King,—with infinite desert, and with absolute authority and efficiency, for the bringing in of an everlasting righteousness.

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In contemplating the immediate acts of the Godhead, in reference to Redemption, the following important considerations present themselves:-The temple of the Body being, as before stated, prepared for his reception,-a Body hast thou prepared me, the divine Logos, who was in the beginning WITH God, and WHO WAS God, the underived, co-eternal, and omnipotent Word, proceedeih forth and came from God, John viii. 42. entering and filling the Body and Soul so prepared for Him. I came forth, said He, from the Father, speaking of His Advent, and am come into the World, John xvi. 28. On account of this Advent it was, as distinguished from His proper and eternal omniF 3 presence,

presence, that His Name was called Immanuel, God with us; for although the Divine Nature is essentially in all and through all; as in Him we live, move, and have our Being; yet it would seem that the momentous purposes of Redemption required the second divine Person to be present upon earth, and to be with men, in a sense in which he had never been before; and in which he will never be again. He had been with the Patriarchs of old; had talked with Israel face to face in the mount ; in all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his Presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old:-they drank also of that spiri

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