DISCOURSE VII. 245 are ascribed to bóth, therefore they must both be in some sense true God; and since there is but one true God, they must both have fellowship in the same godhead; or else the Son would be another God different from the Father, which the bible neither knows nor allows. These words therefore, I am God, and there is none else, if applied to Christ mean no more than this : There is no other godheadbut that which dwells in me ; but that godhead in which Ipartake, byintimate communion or one-ness with theFather. I am in the Father, and the Father is in me; John xiv. 10, 11. In Christ dwells all the fulness of the godhead bodily; Col. ii. 9. After all, if we should ascribe this speech entirely to God theFa- ther, yet it must be confessed, as I hinted before, it is Gód in Christ, God as reconciling the world to himself in and by Jesus Christ, and savingtheGentiles as his people, with an everlaitiny salvation; so that Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour of men, cannot be left out of my text. 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 a 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 inhabit the distant cor- ners of the world, and the islands that are afar of, that have not heard of the fame of the grace or glory of God: As Is. lxvi. 19. For the Jews fancied themselves to be placed in the middle of the earth, by the peculiar favour of God; and indeed they were so in one respect, for the land of Canaan is near the bor- ders 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 included in this expression, for they were the veryfarthest parts of the earth, that could be known in the age of Isaiah. This voice of com- passion is therefore eminently sent to us in England ; the Lord says to every one of us, bebold me, behold nze, ye that were not called by nzy name; Is. xlv. 1. Look unto me from these isles afar of 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. Thewords may be understood in a`figurative sense, and so they may signify all those persons who are under the same sort of character and circumstance as the Gentiles werein that age. 1. Ye that are in the ends of the earth, that ire afar off from the church of God, his knowledge and his worship. Ye that are at the greatest distance from the true Jerusalem. Ye e3
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