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 Lord. In His own person, "He magnified the Law and made it honourable." In His humanity, all the powers of darkness and of evil assailed Him; but by virtue of the indwelling Divinity, He subdued these infernal enemies of man, and at each temptation removed some portion of the frail humanity, supplying its place from the Divine within, by which He was enabled to subdue all things to Himself. Not an allusion to Him in the Old Testament Scriptures was left unfulfilled. "It behoved Him to suffer, that all things in the law, in the prophets, and in the Psalms, might have their fulfilment." By His own divine power He fully and completely regenerated His assumed humanity. This was His baptism; or, as it may be rendered, His glorification; and this must be the baptism, though of course in a finite degree, of every true disciple. We must, indeed, be baptized with the baptism with which He was baptized. He came not to do His own will, the will of the humanity alone, but the will of the Father—of the Divinity within. It was from the struggles of the humanity with the enemies of man, as well as from the weakness of that humanity, that the Lord used the words, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!" But glory be to the Omnipotent power of the Lord! it was accomplished; the great work was "finished;" and now that power is extended to man, to aid him in the important work; and, like as Christ was raised up by the glory of the Father, so we also shall walk in newness of life.