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 eighteen hundred years: for the Original Divinity clothed itself with humanity in the world, and glorified it, and thus took it to Itself: and, in that Humanity glorified, God is called Jesus Christ. And thus Jesus Christ is the one God, and the sole Object of Christian worship.

But now, we all confess God to be the Author of our being, of our natural life and existence, our Creator, and in that sense our Father. But, as just shown, Jesus Christ is God and the only God. It is Jesus Christ, then, who is the Author of our being and our Creator, and he is therefore our Father: and consequently it is to the Lord Jesus Christ that we are to address the words of the Prayer, "Our Father." When we lift up our eyes and minds in prayer, we should behold before us the Person of the Lord Jesus, in appearance as he was beheld transfigured before the disciples, "His face shining as the sun, and his raiment white as the light." Thus we shall have a distinct object for the mind's eye to rest upon; and from his glorious Person there will flow illumination into the understanding, and warmth into the heart, and every blessing; for he is Omnipotent—"All power is given to me," he said, "in heaven and in earth;" (by "all power being given," here, is meant omnipotence communicated from the Divine to the glorified Human).

But, if the Lord Jesus Christ is Our Father in a natural sense, still more plainly is he seen to be such,