his inferiority and subjection to, and his living by, him. St. John, chap. x. vers. 17 and 18: "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." Chap. xii. ver. 49: “For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say, and what I should speak." Chap. xiv. ver. 31: "But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do." Chap. xvii. vers. 1 and 2, Jesus in his prayer-"Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee; as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." John, chap. iii. ver. 35: "The Father loveth the Son, and hath

given all things into his hand." Chap. v. ver. 19: "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do," &c.: 22, "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son." 30: "I can of mine own self do nothing as I hear I judge; and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who hath sent me." Chap. vi. ver. 37 : "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me,” &c. 38: "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.” Chap. viii. ver. 28: "That I do nothing of myself;

but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these. things." Ver. 50: "I seek not my own glory; there is one that seeketh and judgeth." Chap. xiv. ver. 24: "The word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me." Ver. 31: "As the Father gave me commandment, even so I do." And after his resurrection Jesus saith, ch. xx. ver. 21, "As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” Ver. 17: "I ascend unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." Matthew, ch. xii. ver. 18, from Isaiah: "Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles." Ch. xxviii. ver. 18: "And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." Luke, ch. i. ver. 32: "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David." For testimony that he lived by the Father, see John vi. 57: "As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father," &c. Ch. v. ver. 26: "For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself."

As the Reverend Editor in two instances quoted, perhaps inadvertently, the authority of the Apostles, I think myself justified in introducing some of the sentiments entertained by them on this subject, though I should be contented to deduce my argu

ments, as proposed by the Editor, exclusively from the direct authority of Jesus himself. I shall confine myself to the quotation of one or two texts from the Epistles of St. Paul. 1st Corinthians, ch. xv. vers. 24-28: "Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all." Colossians, ch. i. ver. 15: "Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature."

From a due attention to the purport of the abovequoted texts, and to the term Son, distinctly mentioned in them, the reader will, I trust, be convinced, that those powers were conferred on Jesus, and declared by himself to have been received by him from the Father, as the Messiah, Christ, or anointed Son of God, and not solely in his human capacity; and that such interpretation as declares these and other passages of a similar effect to be applicable to Jesus as a man, is an unscriptural invention. Jesus spoke of himself throughout all the Scriptures only as the promised Messiah, vested with high glory from the beginning of the world. John,

ch. xvii. ver. 5: "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." In this passage, with the same breath with which he prays for glory, he identifies the nature in which he does so with that under which he lived with God before the creation of the world, and of course before his assuming the office of the Messiah. Ver. 24: "Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world." Here again Jesus prays, that his Apostles may witness such honour as the Father had bestowed on him, even before the foundation of the world. Ch. ix. vers. 35-37: "Dost thou" (says Jesus to a man who had been blind) "believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he (the Son of God) that talketh with thee." Ch. xvii. vers. 1, 2: "Father, glorify thy Son; as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." John the Baptist, who bore witness of Christ, looked not upon him in any other view than as the Son of God. St. John, ch. i. ver. 34: "And I saw and bare record," (said John the Baptist, pointing out the person of Jesus,) "that this is the Son of God." John, ch. viii. ver. 42: "I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but

he sent me." And in numerous passages Jesus declares, that, before he assumed the office of the Messiah in this world, he was entirely subject to and obedient to the Father, from whom he received the commission to come to this world for the salvation of mankind. But apparently with the very view of anticipating any misapprehension of his nature on the part of his disciples, to whom he had declared the wonderful extent of the powers committed to him by the Father, he tells them, John, ch. xiv. ver. 28, "The Father is greater than I." It would have been idle to have informed them of a truth, of which as Jews they would never have entertained the smallest question, that in his mere corporeal nature Jesus was inferior to his Maker; and it must therefore have been his spiritual nature, of which he here avowed the inferiority to that of God.

"The Son" is a term which, when used without being referred to another proper name found in the context, implies invariably the Son of God throughout the whole New Testament, especially when associated with the epithet "The Father;" so the latter epithet, when it stands alone, signifies "the Father of the universe." Matthew, ch. xxviii. ver. 19: "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Ch. xi. ver. 27: "No man knoweth the Son but the Father," &c. Vide rest of the Gospel.-It is true, indeed, that the angels of God and some of the ancients of the human race, as

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