ness of the Godhead bodily;" and those | his incarnation, all the character and all

the properties of an everlasting love. Oh, it is a joy unspeakable that thrills through the soul of man when he con

who would strip Christ of his divinity, not only expose your souls to eternal wretchedness, but they go to charge falsehood on the dear and blessed Re-templates the love that redeems his deemer of our souls, because they deny the truth of what he said, when he declared, "I and the Father are one; I in Him, and He in me." And again, in the Revelations, he says, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the begin- | ning and the ending, the first and the last."

soul. When you read, my Christian hearers, an account of the goodness of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I say, when you read the record of his love, who went about doing good, when you hear of the great tenderness, and patience, and compassion, that he manifested in the days when he soNow, here you perceive is all ful- journed on earth, while he was healing ness-here is deity. You see at once all manner of diseases, while he was concentered in Christ all that Jehovah, filling the hearts of men with love, and the Father, can possibly demand at his peace, and joy—when you read an achands on your behalf. You see em- count of this, the tear silently steals bodied in Christ, in your nature, all down the cheek, while the heart is that you as vile, weak, perishing sin- full of peace and joy within, overner can possibly need-you see his whelmed with the contemplation of a sufficiency in all things. Here is some- love so infinite and so great. And if thing that you may rest your souls upon. you follow that stream till it finds its It is the Godhead that stamps eternity, way to your own soul, if you will folimmutability, and infinity on Jesus low that love, the personal and indiChrist, and this, observe, on all that vidual experience of it in your own Jesus Christ did in our nature. Yes, heart, when you reflect on the infinite deity stamps perfection on his person goodness that has been manifested in the very perfection of all excellency. the revelation of it to your own soul, Deity inscribes on his mission, Im- that it is a love that has broken a heart manuel, GOD with us, GoD on our of stone-a love that has opened the side, GoD embarked in our interests, blind eyes-a love that has turned you and therefore the GOD that loved us. from the error of your ways-a love Deity, besides, writes infallability on that has discovered to you, that had his mediatorial engagements. It sheds you pursued the path you were going, a lustre on every name, and on every you would perhaps have sunk ere this in office; and withal, it gives a seal and the vortex of everlasting destruction-a sanction, and perfection, and excel- love that brought you into the liberty lency to his mediatorial work which of the church of GoD-a love that denothing but deity can give it; and livered you, as it is written in the GOD gave it, when he gave it in Christ twenty-third verse, from the power of by virtue of the union of the manhood darkness, and translated you into the with Godhead, as it is expressly de-kingdom of the dear Son of God-a clared of the work by which Christ hath accomplished the redemption of our souls, "that he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified."

And besides this, observe further, if you contemplate Jesus Christ as the Son of GOD-as GoD in our nature, you give the love that he manifested in

love that gave you a title to heaventhat brought down heaven into your soul-a love that taught you to feel the power of God revealed in the inner man

when you feel this, and when you do experience this now, how does it waft your soul to heaven in praise and adoration. Here, my brethren, are broad

prevailing authority? It is because there is in it an infinite fulness, a display of every attribute, and every perfection. It is because in him there is an infinity of wisdom, an infinity of love, and an infinity of power-because he is Christ, the power of GOD, and the wisdom of God.

Now, my brethren, if Christ had not infinite power, if he were not the wis

rivers and streams sufficient to lave the soul in peace, and joy, and gladness. But when you are led to trace back these streams to the fountain head, and see the love that is manifested unto your souls, is a love that had its origin | in eternity, that it sprung in the heart of God before the world you occupy was made-when you learn that the incarnation of GoD's dear Son was only the manifestation of that love-dom of GOD, I would ask how would when you learn that it was love which induced the Son of GOD to take your nature upon him, in order that he might make your nature the channel of communication between the love of his Father and your soul. I say, when you trace the streams of love that are in your soul unto this fountain head, and find that the spring of your salva-yea, multiply the millions upon millions tion is without a date, without a beginning, then you must conclude, inevitably, that it will be without an end, because it is the everlasting love of Jehovah Jesus, who was the beginning of all things, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Now take away the divinity of Christ, and where will you date the source from whence the love shall spring that brings salvation to your heart? Oh, there is no consolation in such a creed | as that. And then what is it that gives such efficacy to the sacrifice of Christ, that when it is applied to the wounded conscience and the broken heart, when it is spiritually applied to the heart that it brings such peace home to the soul, that it causes the troubled waters to rest, that it hushes the storm, and delivers from every source of apprehension? What is it that gives the sacrifice of Christ this efficacy-this internal efficiency? It is because GoD is in that sacrifice, GoD is in that blood which cleanses your heart from an evil conscience, and therefore we are directed to "take heed, and feed the church of GOD, which he hath purchased with his own blood." What is it that gives the advocacy of Christ that

it be possible that he could ever undertake to nogotiate, to manage, to conduct, and controul all the cases and circumstances and concerns of his church and people? How many cases croud before his court-how many errands are brought before his throne every moment, moment by moment;

moment by moment, and who shall take upon himself to explain the number of cases and circumstances, and many of the greatest perplexity, many of the greatest intricacy? How many afflictions, how many sorrows and distresses are thus brought and laid as it were upon his altar, waiting on them for redress, and counsel to direct, to uphold, to keep, and to relieve, and ten thousand other wants and evils, to which he as the head of the church must listen, and if his wisdom were not infinite, how could he meet them all? Here again we must clearly see on the strength of demonstration that Christ is God, and thus might we run through every attribute.

Large, indeed, must be the heart of Christ to enter into all the feelings and all the sorrows of all his people; yea, enlarged must be the boundaries and limits of his soul who can enter into all the feelings and sorrows of his people with all the sympathies of his own heart not neglecting one, adminstering a blessing to all and a blessing to each individual, as though the care of one solitary individual was all that to which he had to attend. And infinite must be the arm by which he keeps,

by which he preserves, by which he protects his people. Nothing short of the arm of GoD could preserve the church, and guide it through the wilderness into the possessions of that inheritance, the heavenly Canaan which he has reserved beyond the grave for all his ransomed and redeemed people. His fulness, therefore, my brethren, you see is an infinite fulness, and if it be an infinite fulness who has that fulness but GOD-that fulness is in Christ, therefore Christ is God.

We We pass on to observe in the Second place, THAT THE FULNESS OF GOD IS

AN INEXHAUSTIBLE FULNESS.

membrance how often you have been on the very verge of falling, one foot, perhaps, over the precipice, and yet you were held on and held upperhaps fallen and yet restored? Can you call to remembrance how often you have grieved the Spirit of God by the perpetration of the same offence, adding aggravation to your iniquity? Can you call to remembrance how often you have vowed, how often you have promised, and how often you have violated your vows and broken your promises? Can you call to remembrance without emotion the many tender, kind, and gracious invitations of the crucified Saviour to come to him, that you might find rest for your souls

This is another conclusive argument to prove that the fulness of Christ is the fulness of God, because it is inex--that your souls may be renewed haustible. If the fulness of Christ were the fulness of a mere creature, why then that fulness must have had a beginning, and if it has had a beginning, then it may have an end. And here we might say again, if we were to add together all the graces that could be accumulated, that were to be found in all the creatures under heaven, and if we were to treasure them up in Christ, separate from his union with Deity, all those graces would not be sufficient. Why? Because it would be liable to fade away, it would die, it would fail, it would be exhausted by the millions of guilty and diseased souls that are every day coming to the fountain, they would soon drain it dry, and it would be proved that Christ out of God were insufficient to meet all the exigencies of his people.

No, my brethren, the fulness that is necessary to reach the boundless, endless, countless exigencies of his people, must be as boundless as the stars of heaven, and as countless as the sand on the sea shore. Is there one solitary instant that you can stand alone? Is there a single moment that you can put your finger and say, you are not in danger of falling away and perishing for ever? Will you call to re

within you that you may have his Spirit in your souls-that your souls may be made a partaker of the Divine nature, and that you may be united to him? Can you call to remembrance the many overtures of tender expostulation and complaint of Immanuel, GoD with us, that you will not come unto him, that you might have life? And is not the patience with which he has borne all this an infinite patience? Had the patience of Christ been the patience of a mere man, would you have been here? Oh, it is owing to the goodness of the Lord that we have not before this been consumed! And why? Because his compassions fail not. The patience of Jesus is an inexhaustible patience, and therefore it is, my Christian brethren, that he has all this time borne with you. I say how often and how long have you tried his patience-how long have you proved his patience, and how long and how much has his patience been tried by the millions of the earth, the millions that have peopled this lower world, for now nearly six thousand years, and still Jehovah Jesus is infinite in patience, he is the God of patience and long forbearance, still he waits, and waits in order to be gracious.

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