258 WORD OF THE LORD. He is called the Logos, or Word (fays Luther), not only as the Begotten of the Father; but becaufe by him the divine Decree, concerning the Creation and Arrange- ments of the Univerfe, and concerning the Redemption of Man, was fpoken and declared.* He was the Word, of whom, and by whom, the Prophets preached ; for he was the Sum and Subitanee- of their Teftimony, the Author and End of all their Revelations. He was the Word, which the Apoftles heard and knew ; for they had nothing to fay of their own, and defired to know nothing but 7efus Chr, and him crucified. In the former, Chrift was the Word of Promife and Pre- diction ; and, in the latter, of Hiltory and Narration : LA both he appears, and will for ever appear, the Word of Faithfulnefs and Infallibility. This Title WORD of the LORD is not, therefore, to be confidered in the modern Acceptation of the Term, as a mere Sound, a Vibration of the Air, and nothing more ; but as that living Medium between the Mind of JEHOVAH and the Intellea of Man, without which there could be no Communion in the two Natures. As there could be no Reciprocity of Ideas between Man and Man, without the Intervention of known and fignificant Words ; fo Chrift, being the Thought or Mind of the GOD-head fubftantially expreffed, is the common Conneftion and Point of Unity between the corporeal and fpiritual, the vifible and invifible, Worlds. He is the Dayfman - between GOD and his People : He is in the Place of his People to ,GOD ; and he is the Reprefentative of the GOD-head to them. What GOD requires of his Chofen, he has engaged, to per- form for and in them ; and what they need from GOD, he has equally engaged to fupply. CHRIST alfo was not only the WORD of JEHOVAH, but JEHOVAH the. WORD ; and, therefore, able to exprefs and explain whatever was needful, concerning the divine Nature, a. MEH. AD. in vit. Georg. P. .dnhalt. p. 2st. j- Job ix. 33. the
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