shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both." (Zech. vi. 12, 13.) "A glorious high throne from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.” (Jer. xvii. 12.) And in the Psalms and Hebrews it is recorded, The Lord sware, and will not repent; thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec. Awake my sword against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts. That is the man in whom God the Son was pleased to become enveloped; whom God declares his fellow; who is fellow with God the Father, in the glory of his nature: for He is the brightness of his glory, fellow in his eternity; for He is alpha and omega, and fellow in omnipotence: for all things that the Father doeth, doeth the Son also, whom God addresses as his fellow. For unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; (Hebrews i. 8;) who with the Father is one universal King. For there is one Lord, and his name one; (Matt. xi. 11 ;) and they fell down and worshipped him. The magi, who had been supernaturally directed by the leading of a star, it must be presumed, were also supernaturally instructed to acknowledge that Deity was incarnate in the child, before whom they fell down and worshipped; for, as before observed, nothing but Deity can be a proper object for worship. All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son; (xi. 27;) thus representing the Father and the Son in terms of

complete equality. (xiii. 41; xxiv. 31; and Mark xiii. 27.) Christ denominates the angels his angels; foretelling, that at the last great awful day He will send his angels forth; but in Luke xii. 8, and John i. 51, He calls them the angels of God. In this instance also, proving his equality with the paternal Deity; and that the holy angels were equally under the command of God the Son as of God the Father. "My house shall be called an house of prayer," (Matt. xxi. 13,) assertive of Deity. "And when they saw him, they worshipped him but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name (not names, in the plural-but name, in the singular) of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;* (xxviii. 17-20;) thus speaking distinctly, though in terms of equality, of each person in the glorious Trinity, and then comprising them in one, by commanding that all nations be baptized in the name of these three Persons "teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen."

The Son of God must therefore be omnipresent. The essentiality of this attribute may be indeed deduced from his being gifted with all power both in heaven and in earth; as the universal government God has laid upon his shoulders could not be exercised were He not omnipresent;

* The Holy Ghost will be a distinct object of inquiry.

nor could he claim that equality with his Almighty Father, which He so unequivocally asserts, were He not fully endowed with that essential attribute: He saw Nathaniel before that Philip called him; (John i. 48;) at a distance viewed the death of Lazarus; and wheresoever two or three are gathered together in his name He is in the midst of them. (Mark ii. 7.) Who can forgive sins but God only ?-This just opinion was far from being controverted by our blessed Lord, and accompanied by miraculous demonstration, that ye may know that the Son of Man (when acting in conjunction with the Son of God,) hath power on earth to forgive sins, "He saith to the sick of the palsy, I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thy house."

In Luke ii. 9, we find a wonderful relation of circumstances attendant on the birth of Christ; such as never were or could be related respecting any other human being, except him in whom dwelt the incarnate Deity. And in verses 28, 29, and 30, pious Simeon blesses God, saying, "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." The circumstances attendant on his death were as wonderful as those attendant on his birth. There was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour: and the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.*

*"That at the time when our Saviour died, there was a miraculous darkness, and a great earthquake, is recorded by Phlegon the Traillian, who was a Pagan, and freeman to Adrian the

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And on the first day of the week when the disciples came to the sepulchre, they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre; and entering in found not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabouts, behold two men stood by them in shining garments and they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth. And certain women also of their company made them astonished, which were early at the sepulchre and when they found not the body of the Lord Jesus, they came, saying that they had seen a vision of angels, which said that He was alive. "And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us: (that word, just before declared to have eternally existed, to have been with God from all eternity, and to be God, became incarnate in our nature;) and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." (John i. 14.) No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared him; "He that cometh from above is above all;" (iii. 31;) “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." (ver. 35.) "My Father worketh hitherto,

emperor. We may here observe, that a native of Trallium, which was not situate at so great a distance from Palestine, might very probably be informed of such remarkable events as had passed among the Jews in the age immediately preceding his own times; since several of his countrymen with whom he had conversed, might have received a confused report of our Saviour before his crucifixion, and probably lived within the shake of the earthquake and the shadow of the eclipse, which are recorded by this author."-Addison's Evidences.

and I work.” (v. 17.) Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because He said that God was his Father; making himself equal with God. The truth of this observation our blessed Lord was very far from controverting; but took therefrom occasion to explain unto them that although He did not disclaim equality either of power or glory with his Almighty Father, yet that He owed the derivation of both his power and glory to his Almighty Father. "Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what He seeth the Father do for whatsoever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth and He will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. (v. 19-23.) Not that any man hath seen the Father save He which is of God, He hath seen the Father." (vi. 46.) "But I know him, for I am from him;" (vii. 29;) I am from above, I proceeded forth and came from God." (viii. 42.) "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than

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