.111111111 26o WORD of THE LORD. Mofes Paid to the Children of Ifrael ; JEHOVAH your GOD is GOD of Gods [or great ones] and LORD of Lords, &c. yolsn, defcribing the Glories of the WORD of GOD and the LAMB, ftyles him, KING of Kings and LORD of Lords. -f Jesus CHRIST, then, is JEHOVAH and GOD. TheScriptures afford us Promifes, fufficient to exereife every Mode and Figure of Reafoning, to form this grandConclufion. The living WORD fpeaks, and reveals, and promifes, and acts, throughout the Bible; which in- deed is called the Word ofGOD only in reference toHim. Hewas the Oracle, which gave the Scriptures forth; and they all teftify 9f him, as their Author and their Sub- ftance.T They have noObjeE, but Cbrí; and no End, but the Glory of the GOD-head in his People's Salva- tion. Dr. Watts no lefs juftly than elegantly fangs; 'Twas this Almighty WORD, that all things made.; He grafts whole Nature in his Jingle Hand : fill the eternal Truths in Him are laid, The Groundof all things, and their Head, TheCircle where they move, andCenter where they f ane.4 Jxsus CHRIST is not only the WORD of GOD to declare his Glory, but. the Word of Life FI (as the Apoftle ftyles him) fromGOD, to reveal and effee the Redemption of his Chofen. He gives -them Life; and Peace, and every Bleffing. Whatever their Nature can want, or the GOD-head bath covenanted to bellow ; they have a Right, through his Promife, to receive from * Deut. x. 17. j Rev. xvii. 14. xix. 53, 16. $ It is remarkable that vai, the Oracle, or Place in the Holy, of Holies, from which Refponfes were made, when JEHOVAH was in- quired of by his People, is derived from the fame Root as THE WORD, of whom it was a fingular Type ; and it intimated to the yewwifh Church, that GOD and his Will could only be known . through the Mejlah its Antitype, and the fenfible Mediator. To this our Lord alludes molt probably in John xiv. 6. and xvii. 8, 14. 17. § FHoree Lyr. p.' John i. I. HIM
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