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 acceptance of the office is recorded in these terms, "Then said I, Lo I come, in the volume of the book it 1s written of me to do thy will, O God: I am content to do it, yea thy law is in my heart." Upon this agreement he entered on and performed the office of a Mediator, and for this purpose, in reference to this work, he is styled the Messiah, the Christ, and the Anointed of God. As Moses was the Mediator in the Old Testament, to stand between God and his people in the Jewish covenant, so is Christ the Mediator under the New Testament, to act for and between God and his people in the Christian Covenant.

The doctrine of a Mediator has every thing to recommend it: it is at once grand and original: it shews a deep insight into human nature, and satisfactorily solves many questions, which could be known originally only from divine revelation. The defect is fatal to the pretensions of the Koran. The pious Mu-