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tial to such a nature." Bodily, (somatikos,) signifies truly, or really, in opposition to a typical, or figurative residence. Then we understand that

God dwelt in the person of Jesus Christ essentially, substantially, and personally, as the human soul dwells in, and vivifies the body. This explains what he said to Philip. "He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father;" and "I am in the Father, and the Father in me." Then, if the Bible can be relied upon as testimony, we think this point, also, sustained. If the Bible is not to be taken as decisive evidence, we must change our position, and, instead of proving the holy doctrine of the divinity of Jesus Christ from that, we must turn and strike against gross infidelity and prove the Bible to be the truth of God. But admitting the blessed Bible to be true, as we trust all who profess the Christian religion will do, we may safely proceed to show the contaminating error of denying the divinity and humanity of the Son of God. Were it not for this blessed mirror, that reflects upon us the purity of the upper world, we should know but little of the mode of the supreme existence. Without this lamp to illumine our benighted world, we might wander as fugitives, in darkness, through the scenes of this transient world, and sink at last, in tempests and in storms, beneath the sable waves of an eternal night, when none should weep our fall, and none record our name. But, thanks be to Heaven, for the inexpressible gift of the holy volume.

Then why not believe its most positive declarations?

If Jesus Christ is the wisdom and power of God, he is so inherently, or this wisdom and power is delegated to him. Shall we suppose that God delegated his own wisdom and power? Candor will re

ply no; and yet we may as well expect that he delegated all his wisdom, as that he delegated creative power. But see what had God left to himself after delegating his power and wisdom? If Jesus Christ was not God, as Unitarians assert, but only “a god” in the subordinate sense that Moses was called god, then the result is, that the Father was inactive or inert, while Christ has been creating the worlds, and that the Father had neither wisdom nor power, because Christ had all wisdom, and all power, in heaven and in earth! Now the fact is that Jesus

Christ, the wisdom and power of God, was one with God from eternity, as says the word of inspiration. "I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning or ever the earth was. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth. When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the deep, when he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the water should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of

the earth: then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him." Prov. 8:23-30.

CHAPTER VI.

The Omnipresence of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If

THERE are, we think, very few who profess to believe the record God has given of his Son, who would avow the doctrine that the Almighty was confined to any particular location. Very few Christians would fall in with the idea that Jehovah could be in only one place at a time. There is but one omnipresent being of which we can possibly form any conception whatever. That being that can be present in all parts of the world and in the celestial regions at the same time, must be omnipresent. that being is not omnipresent, we have no proof of any omnipresent being. But that there is such a being, no believer in God will deny, or seriously doubt. If, then, we can prove that Jesus Christ is omnipresent, that is, that he can be in more places than one at the same time, we shall prove him to be God, in his divine nature. We will appeal to his own words on this point. “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Mat. 18:20. "Lo I am with you always, even to the end of the world." Mat. 28: 20. “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man, which is in heaven." John 3:13.

1. Wherever his children meet for worship, there says the Savior, AM I. While his saints are assembled, they do not have to wait for him to come, but

he is already there. Ten thousand congregations meet on every holy Sabbath in his name, and a find his promise verified. The old, grey-headed veteran of the cross, while in the sanctuary of God, feels his heart warmed with the presence of his Savior, and with his countenance brightening up with rapture, exclaims, "I know my Redeemer lives, I feel him in my soul, young convert, while

the hope of glory." Says the tears gather in his eyes, " I know in whom I have believed; I feel he is with me now." If, indeed, the blessed Jesus was not omnipresent, what a death-blow would it strike at the root of Christian enjoyment. The Christian says from the centre of his soul:

"Blest Jesus, what delicious fare,

How sweet thine entertainments are,
Never did angels taste above,

Redeeming grace and dying love."

Take Jesus out of the assembly, and all is gone; and while he is present, if a prison, or a pit, is the home of the Christian, he feels that he has the best of company. The martyr has found him to be present to help him in the curling flames, while the hosts of heaven meekly bow before him and cast their crowns at his feet. Christian reader, do you not feel and know him to be with you while you meet for his worship? Would not the chill of death freeze your devotions, if you thought that Jesus was not present with all his children? and with you?

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