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(2) He is from all eternity, but
especially in His incarnation. he is
the utterance or expression of the
thought of God John 1871; oil.
2:9). The same was in the beginn-
ing with God.
In the beginning" Geneses Denotes
the beginning Of that movement of
the divine creative energy from
which sprang the visible universe.
The Evangelists words takes us be-
yond this definite point into the i'm.
measurable eternity. In the begin
ming was the Word" the Word, the
Logos, was not then call into being.
He existed before all worlds John
17:5-24.) That is before time, which
measures the vast universe.
AS eternity has no beginning nor
end, the Word Logos had no begin
ming nor end. Heb. 7:3)
The Word was made flesh and
dwelt among us. and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only be-
gotten of the Father, full Of grace
and truth. He did not assume a mere
appearance of man.
Nor did he take to himself only
a body as some other have said, nor
was Word simply united with the
perfect man, Jesus, as Nestorius
maintained. He became flesh. He
did not cease to be the Word.
But he made the human body
which he assumed-a true body and
a reasonable soul, one with himself
so thenceforth he was the Goldman,
Emmanuel. God with US, or God
dwelling with us.
EQUAL WITH THE FATHER.
Christ's claims to be equal with the
Father ought to settle, at once and
forever, the question of his divI.ity
For if equal to the Deity, then to
of all the divine attributes that God
possess.
Like the Father he must have pos
sessed a wisdom omniscient, a power
almighty, a presence universal. a
holiness Immaculate, a goodness over
shadowing all, a justice without re-
spect to person, a truth firmer than
the everlasting hills, a mercy reach.
ing even the rebellious and a love
embracing all mankind.
All the attributes of the Deity clus-
tered around the pathway of Jesus
like so many FURNISHED orbs, encir-
cling the sun in his brilliant career
through the heavens; therefore he
must have been Divine.
The caImness of Christ, in the pres
ence of earth, d~ignitaries, proclaimed,
or proved him to be infinitely above
all who yere in authority. The exact
fulfillment of prophecy concerning
him, bors sacred testimony of his just
claim to the Messiship.
And again the authority by which
he forgives sins wrought miracles,
showed him to be more than a mere
man. The song of the angels at his
birth. and the voice of his Father al
l the Jorden, and on Mount of Trans
figuration proclaimed his immaculate
: Sonship. Truly he was the Son o.
God"
And he proved himself to be infin
itely above humanity, by his works
and words, speaking so far in advance
of all of the ages. And his Church
stands today upon the solid Rock Of
Ages, and the Gates of hell shall not
prevail against it,"
Go to the grave of L~azarous and hear
his matchless voice penetrate the re,
gion of the dead and awake that slum
boring form. If you desire further
evidence of Christ's divine nature &C
to the Cross.
Look at the darkened heavens. and
the quaking earth, the rending Rocks
and the raising dead. all bears sacred
testimony to his claim of Divinity
And then come on the first day of the
week to his sepulchre.
Wathh the dazzling Of the two an
gelic messengers like lightning flash
descend and roll back the stone from
the door to the sepulchre and he arose
with healing in his beam, Truly he
was Divine.