The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08


the work of creation is here an
nounced, and that the author o
creation Is alluded TO, that SO fair
man as Rev. DIR. Peabody, of Har
ward University endeavors to shov
that the anticedent of the pronoul
"hin," is not Lo0os-the Word, bu
Theo.-God. A weaker piece o
criticism was never perpetrated
When he finds a respectable and un
biased scholar that will agree to il
then it will be time enough to re
ply. The Word there exercise
creative power. And that Wort
was the being who was incarnated
John tells us.
How Paul displays this though
is manifest to all. "Who Christ il
the image of the invisible God, the
first born of every cretion; be
cause by him were all things ere
ated, things in heaven, things on the
earth, visible, invisible; all things
were created by him and fof him
he is before all things, and by him
all things subsist." If omnipotence
If creative power ara not predicted
Of Christ in these passages, it would
be difficult to know how they could
be. Where dweils the man who
dares set limits to being who can
do all the scriptures assert Of the
Lord Jesus.
3. Opaniscience is ascribed to our
Savior. Hear his words: Gall
things are delivered unto me of my
Father, and no more knoweth the
Son but the Father, neither know
eth any one the Father save the
Son. No one hath seen God at any
time, the only begotten Son who lie
in the bosom of the Father, he hath
declared him. No one hath seen
the Father save he who is OF God,
he hath seen the Father" What is
claimed here if not an equality OF
knowledge? The Son as much
knows the mind of the Father AZ
does the Father that of the Son.
On the hypothesis that Jesus had
nothing essentially but q mamma
ture such language is audacious in
the extremeI For a creature to
measure himself with his creator.
is what no fair mind conld tolerate.
In the Acts !, a, the Apostles ad-
dressed prayer to Jesus as knowing
all hearts, "And thou Lord who
knotOest the hearts Of all, show
which of these two thou didsI
choose, that he may take part in this
ministry and apostleship." And
addressing the beloved John on the
Isle of PaimOs the Savior, says: 81
am he that searches the hearts and
veins" Ability to search the heart
implies in the estimation of the
sacred writers omniscience. Itwas
in this way that they were aecus-
toned to set forth the omniscience
of Jehovah. It was accorded to
him as his exclusive prerogative to
search the heart. "Give thou unto
every one according to his ways,
whose heart thou knowest, for only
thou knoWest the hearts of the chill
dren of men," If the Lord Jesus
exercises this divine prerogative,
what is the Just 1nrerencef Who
but God can know all things2
4. ImnaEta6ility is also ascribed
to Christ. "Jesus Christ the same
yesterday, to-day and forever"
What is this but saying that he is
immutable. In the closing verses
of the 102 Psalm, we have language
which no one denies is descriptive OF
the immutability of the Infinite Je-
hovah. The Apostle, in the letter
to the Hebrews, takes this very same
language and applies it to Christ.
1t is the object OF the author OF that
epistle to prove that Jesus, the
Mediator of the New Test. is super
Tor to Angel Moses, and the High
Priest mediators of the Old. He
devotes himself in the first chapter
to the work of showing his super
iority to angels. This brings in TO
view his God-nature. Among 9TH
err things he quotes this Psalm as
applicable to the Savior, "And thou
Lord, in the beginning hast LAID at
the foundation of the earth and the
heavens on the works Of thy hands.
They shall change, but thou remain
est. They shall wax old as doth q
garment; but thou art the same,
and thy years shall not fail" What
does this imply but immutability,
and what is the inference but that
the JehoEsh of the Old Test, and
the Jesus of the New, are essential
ly one and the same in nature?
Thus as conceiYe 1 have shown
that Divine attributes are ascribed
to Christ. He is set forth in the
Scripture IS exercising the functions
of the GOdhead. 1t remains that
we now advance to the next step in
this argument, which is to show:
II. THAT THIS Is ALLOWABLE. ON
NO OTHER HYPOTHIs THAN THAT HE IS
Certain I am that it Is not admis-
able on the humanitarian hypoth-
esis that the only dement's which
enter into the essence of his nature
are human, that he is Q man-with
nothing but a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
INTERNATIONALLY endowed or other
wise. Hence those who deny his
essential divinity dare not allow
him these attributes. They may cal
him q divine man, but they cal
other men divine. It 10 only q fig
ure Of speech with them and has.nC
solid meaning in it. The old Socin
ian writers maintained that divine
prerogatives were accorded tot Chris
on the ground that he was invested
with miraculous powers. But i
should be remembered that tn
apostles were invested with tn
same, yet we have no such Language
. ascribed to them-A nature begot
, ten OF man and born of woman
and such was the nature of Christ il
j the estimation Of most modern On
] itarians, is divine in no prope
. sense. He is essentially human
hence no NOSE the subject OF divin
8 attributes than Paul,or John, or Con
5 fucious, or Socrates or Plato.
If we adopt the middle or Aria
view, and allow that the Saviour wa
: q pre-existent being, the first an
J. nobIesk that God the Father create