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ON THE

CHAPTERI.

1. God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.

Thus nobly commences the Epistle to the Hebrews. The comprehensive statement of these verses may be resolved into three specific propositions.

I. "God," says the sacred writer, "at sundry times," or rather, in many parts, "spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets."

"God spake." He to whom all truth and knowledge appertain — He who embraces in the range of his unerring vision whatever has been, is, or yet shall be — He "whose faithfulness is in the heavens, and whose truth reacheth to the clouds" — having constituted man, from the beginning, an intellectual, moral, and responsible being, addressed him, as in later, so in earlier ages, on matters of transcendent interest. As, in the days of innocence. He aided man's pure and unperverted reason by express revelations of his mind