JESUS, 0 SAVIOUR. 2II Companion of Him, who faid in his Heart, There is no GOD ; and becomes more the Objef of Pity and Prayer, than ofDebate and Argument. He may have Underftanding enough in common Matters, and bewife too in hisGeneration ; * but, while he is in this Sentiment, He certainly cannot have that fpiritual Difcernment, which conftitutes faving Wifdom and which is neceßâry for the right Apprehenfion of the Things of GOD. t Befides the Reafon of the Redeemer's Name; abundant Proof, of his Deity might alto be drawn from all that he did andPaid, and from all that has been declared of and done through Faith in his Name. . A fhort Speci- men may ferve. His Divinity appears from what He did. The Winds and the Seas obeyed him. Difeafes vanifhed at his Word. At one Command, he converted Souls : At another, He created Food to feaft a Multitude. In a Moment, he railed the Dead. He overcame Death in himfelf; rote from the Grave by his own Power; and, by the fame Power, finally mended to Heaven. Himfelf alerted the Glory of his Perlon. He com- manded all Men to honor the Son, even as they honored the Father. The incommunicable Name and the un- created Perfeétions of the Godhead, he claimed as his own. Men adored Him, and, in adoring Him, received his Approbation ; and thole, who did not acknowledge him as the everlafting I AM, He himfelf declared, fhould die in their Sins. He expreffed his infeparable Union with the Father, and thought it no Robbery to be equal with Fli,ñ. His Deity was declared by others, who law his won- derful Works, who beheld his Glory, the- Glory as of the only begotten of the Father, and were Eye witne/fes of his Majfly. Thomas, with an Obftinacy which of brds a Conviélion of his own Sincerity and a further Attefta- tion of his Saviour's Grace, fervently exclaimed, not only for himfelf but for all, My LORD and My GOD; s Luke xvi 8, t i Cor. ii. 11. P a when
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