the true Charahier of his Difciples. 2 t S God, and of goodnefs ought to be predo- S E R r,7: minant. Other affelions are not to be IX. rooted out, but this muff be fupreme ; and they gratified and indulged only by its per - mißïon, and fo far, as not to be incontinent with it. This is the true meaning of my text. For what I would principally obferve for illuftrating this fubjef, is, that the love of Chrift, and the love of God and goodnefs, is juft the fame. His profeffed defign, which he uniformly purfued in his dotrine, and through the whole courfe of his actions and fufferings, was to glorify his heavenly father ; that is, to promote righteoufnefs, piety and virtue in the world, which is the image and glory of God ; to recover men from their corruption and degeneracy to the fincere obfervance of his laws, and the imi- tation of his holinefs. It can never then be imagined, that he intended to fet up himfelf as an object of our efteem and affe &ion, by way of diftindion from his father : As he fays himfelf, * he and his father are one. It is his glory to be the exprefs image of the Father's perfon, and to declare him, whom no man bath fen at any John x. 3o. P time.
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