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 "there is one God, and one Mediator [medium of approach] between God and man, the man Christ Jesus."

It was one of the most astonishing displays of love on the part of the Creator, that he "took not on him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham;" and condescended to veil himself in the flesh, that he might be accessible to all, to the meanest even of his creatures. Man is a man by virtue of his being a receptive vessel, into which life from the Lord can flow; and life from the Lord flows into the corporeal, sensual, natural, rational, spiritual, and celestial.

By the six days of creation, are meant the various states of labour, trial, and conflict, through which man has to pass during his regeneration, until by progressive advances, from things mean to things mighty, from things earthly to things heavenly, he rises into the higher degrees of life, passes through the evening and morning of one state, and enters upon the evening and morning of another state, and at length completes the six days of trial, and enters into the state of heavenly rest and peace, signified by the seventh day or Sabbath.

AHl the states through which man passes are called good; but when the Divine image and likeness is formed in him, then everything is pronounced to be ";" to instruct us that the principles of man's life, previous to reformation and regeneration, however excellent and heavenly they may be, are yet defective in that qualification which is necessary to give them their true value and importance, namely, the qualification derived from the humble and thankful acknowledgment on the part of man, that they