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Rh and that he came to do his will. In this state also he suffered temptations and crucifixion. But in his state of glorification he said, that he and the Father were one; that the Father was in him, and he in the Father; yea, that all things belonging to the Father were his; and in conclusion, after his resurrection, that all power was given unto him in heaven and in earth.

It follows, therefore, that after the descent of Jehovah God into the world, and during the time in which he was veiled with a Humanity visible to men, he sustained a character and title suited to the low condition and appearance assumed; but that, on his re-ascent, he again returned into that ineffable glory, which he had before all worlds, and which now, in consequence of the incarnation and glorification, shines in heaven with a seven-fold lustre, as it is expressed by the prophet: "The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound," Isa. xxx. 26.

THE great Jehovah having thus shewn himself to be not only the Creator, but also the Redeemer and Saviour, by means of the Humanity which he assumed in the world: and having returned to heaven, together with and in that Humanity glorified, it became necessary, on the removal of his personal presence from the church, to secure to it the presence of his Holy Spirit: and this is effected by the divine truth proceeding immediately out of the Lord's