6. In Hebrews ii. 14, the same doctrine concerning the person of Christ is clearly taught. In the first chapter of that Epistle the Son is declared to be the brightness of the Father's glory and the express image of his substance (i. e., of what the Father is). By Him the worlds were made. He upholds all things by the word of his power. He is higher than the angels, i. e., than all intelli- gent creatures. They are bound to woi-ship Him. They are addressed as mere instruments ; but the Son as God. He made the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. He is eternal and immutable. He is associated with God in glory and dominion. He, the person of whom all this is said in the first chapter, in the second chapter is declared to be a man. In Him was fulfilled all the saci'ed writer in the eighth Psalm had taught concerning the universal dominion assigned to man. Men are declared to be his brethren, because He and they are of one nature. As they are partakers of flesh and blood. He also took part in the same, in order that He might die, and by death redeem his people from all the evils of sin.
Nothing can be plainer than that the Scriptures do teach that Christ is truly God, that He is truly man, and that He is one per- son. They assert of Him whatever may be said of God, and every- thing that can be said of a sinless man. They enter into no ex- planations. They assume it as a certain fact that Christ is God and man in one person, just as they assume that a man is a soul and body in one person.
Here the subject might be left. All the ends of the spiritual life of the believer, are answered by this simple statement of the doctrine concerning Christ's person as it is presented in the Scrip- tures. False explanations, however, create the necessity for a cor- rect one. Errorists in all ages have so explained the facts recorded concerning Christ, as either to deny the truth concerning his divine nature, or the integrity of his human nature, or the unity of his