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246 ken of Deity, one complete whole; and thus were important occurrences garbed in language, suited to the elevation of the Godhead. In process of time, this august Creator, was to be enrobed in humanity and become the born; was to be exhibited as a  of consolation, taking of the things of Jesus, and exhibiting them to the mind, thus speaking peace. Mr. Murray was at the same time a, and a , beholding, constantly beholding the trinity in the unity. make man in our image, after our own likeness.—Yea, verily, man may be considered as made in the image, and after the likeness of his Creator. The figure is striking; man is a triune being, body, soul, and spirit, yet no individual is considered as three, but one man, the in. The Almighty, clad in garments of flesh, became the, and, speaking of Himself as man, he says, my Father is greater than me; while, reverting to the divinity, he affirms, the Father and He are. Philip, have I been so long with thee, and dost thou say, show me the Father? he who hath seen me, hath seen the Father. Was this true,—or was Jesus Christ an Impostor? In this view the scriptures are beautifully consistent. I am ; a just God and a Saviour; .—This same evangelical prophet exultingly exclaims, Isaiah ix. 6. Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Such were the comprehensive views of Deity, which became more and more luminous to the mental eye of the Preacher.

He believed, that the creation of human beings made a part of the divine purpose; in which sacred, uncontrolable, and irreversible purpose, the were originally and intimately united to their august Creator, in a manner, and as much beyond our limited conception, as the Creator is superior to the creature whom  hath formed.

Adam the first was a figure of Adam the second. Adam the first, the prototype; Adam the second, the substance of the prototype, the Creator of all Worlds, the Lord from Heaven. The sacred scriptures abound with figures of this mysterious, this ennobling, this soul-satisfying ; among which, perhaps, none is more expressive than that of the Head and Members constituting one body, of which Jesus Christ was the immaculate Head. Hence the propriety and necessity, of looking with a single eye to Jesus Christ. We are members of the body of Christ, who is the head of every man: Should a single member of