DIVINE ATTRIBUTES ASCRIBED TO JESUS CHRIST, THE "And Thomas answered and said unto him, my Lord and my God." "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense."-SONG "He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."-II. Cor. v. 21. 184 ON THE RIGHT KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. "And one of the Scribes came, and having heard them reasoning to- gether, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, 'hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength:' this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, 'thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself:' there is none other commandment greater than these."- THE Divinity of Christ. SERMON I. "And Thomas answered and said unto him, my Lord and my God!"-JOHN, xx. 19. THE HE incredulity of this disciple respecting the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, may justly be considered as a circumstance which tends to corroborate the evidence in favour of that most important and glorious event. The apostle's incredulity was overcome by the most incontestible evidence, for he was made an eye-witness, and more than an eye-witness, that the Lord was risen indeed; and, having all his doubts removed, he acknowledged his risen Saviour, and made a confession of his faith in him, as his Lord and his God. My design in the following discourses, is to assert and vindicate the important doctrine of Christ's divinity; and this I will endeavour to do in a plain and familiar manner. And it is my prayer to the God of truth, that his holy spirit would guide and lead us into all truth, and that the eyes of our understandings A |