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FAITH
IN
ITS LOWEST DEGREES.
[Disc.
vI
.
else,
if
applied
to
Christ
mean
no
more than this
:
There
is
no
other
godhead but
that
which dwells
in me
;
but
that
godhead
in
which
I
partake,
by
intimate communion
or
one
-ness with
the Father.
"-I
am in
the Father, and the
Father
is in me
;"
John
xiv.
10,
11.
In
Christ
dwells all
the
fullness
of
the godhead bodily
;" Col.
ii.
9.
After
all,
if
we
should
ascribe this speech
entirely to
God
the Father, yet
it
must be
confessed, as
I
hinted
before,
it
is
God
in
Christ,
God
as
reconciling
the world
to
himself
in
and
by
Jesus
Christ, and.saving the gentiles
as
his
people, with an everlasting salvation
;
so
that
Christ, the
Son
of
God,
the Saviour
of
men,
cannot
be
left
out
of
my
text.
1.
The
second
enquiry
is
this, who
are the persons
to
whom
this gracious
invitation
is
made
?
The
text
tells
us,
that
the
call
reaches
to all the ends
of
the
earth,
which
we
are
to
understand
in
á
literal
or
in
a
figurative
sense.
.
I.
In
a
literal
sense,
and thus
it
signifies
the gentile
nations,
who
dwell
afar
off from
Judea,
those
that
inha-
bit
the distant corners of
the world, and the islands
that
are
afar
off,
that have not heard of
the
fame
of
the
grace
cr
glory
of
God.
As
Is.
lxvi.
19.
For
the
Jews
fancied
themselves to
be
placed
in
thei middle
of
the
earth,
by
the peculiar
favour
of
God
;
and indeed they were
so
in
one respect,
ftbr
the
land.
of Canaan
is
near the borders
of
Asia, where
it
joins
to Africa, and
not
very far
off
from the
limits
of Europe
;,
which
three
were the only
known parts
of
the world
in
that
day.
The
British islands
may, in
a
special manner, be in-
eluded
in
this expression,
for
they were
the
very
farthest
parts
of
the
earth,
that
could be
known
in
the
age
of
Isaiah. This
voice
of
compassion
is
therefore
eminently
sent to
us
in
England
;
the
Lord
says to
every
one
of
us,
behold
me,
behold
me, ye
that
were
-not
called
by my
name; Is.
lxv.
1.
Look
untô
me
from these
isles
afar
off,
ye
"Britons,
look unto
me from the ends
of
the earth,
and
be saved.
O
Sirs,
if
you and
I
could
but
imagine
that
Jesus Christ
calls
us,
as
it
were by name, surely it
would allure,
us
to
hearken
to the
voice
.
of such
divine
compassion.
II.
The
words may
be
understood
in
a figurative sense,
and
so
they
maysignify
all those
persons
who
are
under