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DISC.
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FAITH
IN
ITS LOWEST DEGREES.
213
queries would
be
very
hard to
answer,
if
we
had
nothing
else
but
this
miraculous sound,
yet
as
the
words lie in
the
Old
Testament;
since
we
enjoy the New,
it
is
much
easier
to
obtain a
satisfying answer to them.
Let
us
then
try
to
find
out,
.
I. Who
is
the
person
that
speaks.
II.
Who are
the
persons spoken
to.
III.
What
this salvation
is.
IV.
How
we
are
to come by
it.
V.
What
assurance
we
can have,
that
we.shall possess
-
it
in the
way
proposed.
To
answer these questions shall be the business
of
these discourses.
First,
Let
us
find.
out
who
is
the
person
that
speaks.
He
asserts
his own
divinity
in
the words
of
my
text.
.
I
am
God
and
there
is
atone
else.
Whether
the Divine
Being speaks
this.
in the
person
of
the Father, or
in
the
person
of Jesus Christ
the
Son, is
not
of
absolute neces-
.
sity to be
determined
in this
place.
Perhaps
it
could
not
be
expounded
under
the Old
Testament
any otherwise than
concerning
the
great God,
considered
asthe
Father of
all,
the only
true
God, whose
name
is
Jehovah,
and
who was
then
chiefly
known to
the
Jews
as
the
God of
Israel.
It
is
the
God of
the
Jews
calling the gentiles
to
partake of
his
salvation.
He
is
their strength
and
their
Saviour,
and
their
righteousness
is
derived from
him,
as in
the
foregoing
and
following
verses.
But
when
under
the New
Testament
we
explain these-
words,
we
must
rather
consider
God
in Christ reconcil-
ing the world
of
Jews and gentiles
to
himself
:
It
is
the.
same one godhead which dwells
bodily in the man
Christ
Jesus
;
for
'the
Father
and the
Son
are not two Gods.
It
is
God, the
only
true God;
manifest
in
the
flesh
:
It
is
Immanuel or
.òd
with us,
who
speaks these
words
:
It.
is.
Christ Jesus
the Lord,
who
is
one with
the
Father,
and'
in
whom
the
fulness
of the Godhead
dwells, who
calls
the
ends
of
,the
earth
tó
look .unto
him
and
be
saved.
And there
are
some
.
special reasons
that
incline
me
to
snppose these words
of the prophet
should
chiefly
be'.
applied
in the
New
Testament
to
our Lord Jesus'
Christ,
who makes this blessed
offer.
of
grace.
(L).
It
is
the
same
person to
whom
the salvation
of..
rS