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 the One God by the medium he has consecrated, namely, His Divine Humanity. There is One God, and one Medium, or Mediator, between God and man the man Christ Jesus; and no man can approach that pure essence of Deity called the Father, but by and through the medium of the, humanity called the Son; no man cometh to the Father but by Him. Jesus Christ, then, is the Sun of righteousness, the great centre of heat and light, of love and wisdom, in whom alone we live, and move, and are; consequently, the one only God. He has placed us in the midst of two forces, by which our freedom of will is preserved; and by the glorification of His humanity, He has proclaimed Himself the centre of all good and truth, from the highest celestial to the lowest natural, from the time when He sat in the midst of the doctors, and was representative of all genuine truth, whence all sound doctrine originated, to the time when He declared all power to be His, in heaven and on earth, and ascended up into the centre of the sun of heaven, perpetually to bless all creatures in all worlds.

GREAT deal has been said and written respecting the impossibility of man keeping the commandments, which, to the simple and earnest reader of the Scriptures, must appear a waste of time, as well