wonderful, and which forms the one subject of adoration and thanksgiving amongst all the myriads of the redeemed in heaven. Divest it of this, and you despoil God of his honour, and man of his felicity : for I hesitate not to say, that it is from these considerations, chiefly, that heaven itself will derive its chief happiness.]
Let me, in coiMclusion, call your attention to the duties which this view of the Messiah necessarily brings with it:
1. Believe in Jesus with your whole hearts —
[If, as you have seen, he is indeed God as well as man, "he is able to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by him." You need not fear to cast yourselves entirely on him. Hear how this very thought is suggested by the Prophet Isaiah, speaking to us in the Messiah's name : " Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth ; for I am God, and none else"." Hear, too, what encouragement he further gives you to repose all your hope and confidence in him : " Surely shall one say. In the Lord have I righteousness and strengthP." If Jehovah be your righteousness, who shall con- demn you? and if Jehovah be your strength, who shall overcoijie youi? Again then, I say. Cast yourselves on him ; for " in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and in Him shall they glory ^"]
2. Serve and glorify him with your whole souls —
[If he be David's Lord, no doubt he is yours also : and that he is worthy to be obeyed by you, it is needless for me to observe. My text calls me to notice, not so much his zvorthi- ness to be served, as your obligation to obey him. If you come to him as a Saviour, you must also take his yoke upon you^ This, I say, must be done : for the Father has pledged himself, that " all his enemies shall be his footstool." Jesus is " seated at the right hand of God," and will assuredly pre- vail over all opposition ; and they who bow not to the sceptre of his grace will be " broken in pieces by him, as a potter's vessel*." See, then, that he be your Lord, not in word only, but in deed and in truth. See that your whole souls be sub- jected to his dominion, and that " every thought of your hearts be brought into a willing captivity to the obedience of Christ" ]
« Isai. xlv. 22. ' p Isai. xlv. 24.
fi Isai. xlv. 24. with Rom. viii. 33, 34. ^ jgai. xlv. 25.
« Matt. xi. 28, 29. * Ps. ii. 9.