tual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ; but he was not therefore called Immanuel. The phrase, the FULNESS of the Godhead BODILY, appears to import, that the Divine Word now dwelt in the Humanity, and was IN the World, in the same supreme and plenary sense, in which He had been in the Bosom, and on the Throne of the Father, before the World was. HE WAS IN THE WORLD, and the World was MADE by Him, John i. 10.

How mysterious and complete the union now subsisting between the two natures of Messiah; each preserving unmixed its own proper character; whilst both are united by bonds eternal as the truth of God, and intimate as those which connect

the

the body and the soul. Even his words and his looks are impregnated with the Divinity which dwells within him. ·

What was it that, at the age of comparative childhood, inspired the Doctors of Judea with astonishment at his understanding and his answers, whilst he disputed with them in the Temple? It was the omniscient Spirit of Jehovah, which illumined his soul, and glowed upon his tongue. And what was it that, at the marriage of Cana in Galilee, so beneficently converted the simple element of water into the best wine? and which afterwards, in all the majesty of creative power, recalled the soul of Lazarus, and of the daughter of Jairus, and of the Widow's

son

son of Nain,-from the place of departed spirits, when once the silver cord had been loosed, and the golden bowl broken, and the pitcher broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern; and when the spirit had returned to God who gave it? It was the omnific Spirit of Jehovah, that sat upon his lips. What was it, moreover, that constrained his most determined enemies, on the occasion of his apprehension in the garden, to go backward and fall to the ground, when he had simply pronounced the sentence, I am? It was the omnipotent Spirit of Jehovah that beamed in his eye.

The solemn purposes of his momentous mission did indeed require him usually to appear

to appear in the lowliest attire of humiliation; that there should be no form nor comeliness in him, and that his face should be more marred than any man's; but yet, as if to counteract the extreme consequences of so much abasement, and, in the language of the Fathers, "to fortify the Disciples against the scandal of the Cross," -they, on one great occasion at least,

beheld his glory, ine glory as of the y begotten of the Father; and whilst they beheld, were overwhelmed by its effulgent splendour: on Tabor, the Godhead burst forth through the vail of his flesh, irradiating even his garments, so that they became while and glistering; and forming a halo of glory around the summit of that

mount,

mount, more splendid and sublime than all the tremendous majesty of Sinai, when the Law came by Moses. Here that Vicegerent of Jehovah, who had, in ages of the world long past away, talked with his Maker in the thick darkness, for the first time communed with God manifest in the flesh; but no thunderings now,-nor light. nings, nor noise of the trumpet waxing louder and louder,-nor smoking of the mountain, caused the glorified person of the Prophet to fear and quake: the milder splendour of Tabor better comported with that dispensation of grace and truth which had come by Jesus Christ.

Further, the perfect execution of the Prophetic office, in which the Redeemer

was