and peace, and joy, and holiness, which through their instrumentality we possess.
We will content ourselves however with this brief mention of them, that we may fix our attention on Him to whom infinitely above all we are indebted, — the Lord Jesus Christ. He also was a Jew, " of the seed of David as pertaining to the flesh," though in his divine nature he was " over all, God blessed for ever." Where shall we begin to speak of the obligations which we owe to him ? or, having begun, where shall we make an end ? He did not merely engage in the covenant of grace as a party, like Abraham, but was the very Mediator and Surety of the covenant, who confirmed and ratified it with his own blood, and undertook, both on the part of God and man, that all the conditions of it should be fulfilled. He did not, like the prophets, merely utter predictions that should be afterwards accomplished, but actually accomplished in his own person all that had been predicted, and fulfilled every iota of what they had said should come to pass. Nor did he, like the Apostles, merely preach salvation to us, though at the expense of his own life ; but he actually wrought out salvation for us, bearing our sins in his own body on the tree ; and " becoming a curse for us," that we might be delivered from the curse of the broken law, and the wrath of an offended God. Nay more ; after having wrought out an everlasting right- eousness for us by his own obedience unto death, he has for nearly eighteen hundred years been inces- santly occupied in securing to us the blessings of redemption by the efficacy of his all-prevailing inter- cession, and by the all-sufficient operations of his grace. He is at this very moment the Head of the whole mystical body, the Church ; and is the source of life and strength to all his members. There is not amongst all the saints upon earth one holy desire, one good counsel, or one just thought, which does not proceed from him as its true and proper source : whatever any man possesses, he has received it out of the inexhaustible fulness of Jesus Christ : so that