made flesh, and dwelt among us, or tabernacled among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only be gotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. According to the proclamation in Genesis, the Messiah was to be the seed of the woman. He is of the seed of David according to the flesh. In that sense God is nearer to his people than ever he was before. The Lamb's bride is flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone. As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself took part of the same. The word being united to the nature of man, has restored the human nature to life; and having cast out the prince of this world; he demolished his empire, destroyed his works, and evidently proved that the devil had not the least claims to the title god and prince of this world; in short that he is a notorious liar, a great deceiver, and a vile impostor. On the cross the Captain of our salvation triumphed over the powers and principalities of darkness, and made a shew of them openly, so that the world might know what they are. When Jesus proclaimed aloud on Calvary it is finished, the kingdom of darkness was shaken, and the drooping spirits of the church of God was revived. The obedience of Christ to the death of the cross, is the title of his brethren to be kings aal priests to God.

Three offices meet in the Captain of our salvation.— He wears three crowns of silver, and gold and precious jewels on his head. The branch, the rod of the stem of Jesse shall bear all the glory, and he shall sit as a priest upon his throne. The altar is consecrated, the house is purified, on the third day when he rose from the grave. By his blood he has obtained liberty to captives; and the people of the land are worshipping at the porch of that gate opened by his blood. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

The Captain of salvation is that Mi-cha-el (the power of God) that great and mighty Prince, who stood so firmly and fearlessly for the children of his people, and the world, death, hell and the grave are under his feet.The Father is proclaiming satisfaction in his sacrifice.-As God smelled a sweet savour or a savour of rest, in the sacrifice of Noah, with how much more delight must the father receive the offering of the body and soul of Jesus once for all, to bear the sins of many as a sacrifice of rest; of whom he hath testified This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. And he graciously calls all the human race to come unto him, and take their rest also in the sacrifice of the Son of Man. To shelter in him, as the only hiding place from the wind; and the only covert from the tempest: who is as rivers of water in a dry place; and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary

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This is the Prince of life, that was once dead, but is now alive; and behold he liveth forever more; and he has the keys of hell and of death. He carries the keys of these kingdoms with him. His righteousnes as the High Priest of our profession, is the key of eternal life.

II. We would notice the perfectness of the Captain of our salvation. And being made perfect he became the author of eternal salvation for all them that obey him.It is said that Christ was made perfect through sufferings. It was on the ground of his sufferings, death, and resurrection that he was constituted a complete saviour. The law says without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. By the sufferings of Christ there was a fountain of blood opened for sin, and for uncleanness. day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die, was the threatening; Christ died for our sins, and rose again the thiad day according to the scripture.

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This perfectness or completeness implies in the first

place, the incarnation of Christ. The priest must have something to offer a sacrifice far sin; a body hast thou prepared for me said he. This is that clean thing that is born out of an unclean thing. Moses saw an emblem of this mystery in the bush that was burning, and yet not consumed. Our God is a consuming fire, dwelling in a tabernacle of clay, the human nature, though dead is not utterly consumed; on the third day you could see the bush growing as usual; full of blossoms and most delicious fruits. The son of God took hold on this body that was prepared for him as his own property; therefore it is said that he offered his own body and soul, that he shed his own blood, and that he had power to lay down his life, and power to take it up again. Such a body the son of God assumed that became him in which he answered the demands of the two stones on behalf of his people. The image of God, and all the fruits of righteousness were found in his human nature. He loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Here the great commandment in the law had perfect love to God as flaming fire through the whole course of his life.The second commandment is also completely fulfilled in his human nature, in the form of a servant he become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. In this nature he paid all the demands of the law; a debt which he never contracted himself, and fulfilled all rightcousness. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law, to do them, is the language of Sinai.

Behold the human nature united to the person of Emanuel hung on the accursed tree, and drinking the cup full of the wrath of God. In hell every one drinks his own cup, and can never drink it up. On Calvary there was but one drinking the cups of countless millions, and said it is fiuished; not a grain of the bitter

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ingredients was left behind for his people to taste. God is just in the justification of the ungodly, by condemn. ing and punishing sin in the human nature of Christ.Christ was a prophet from among his brethren, and taught them the wisdom of God, which was an attribute essential to him as the God-man. He is an High Priest of the kindred of his brethren, their kinsman, and a partaker of their natures, and yet without sin. Here is a King, the offspring of David, sitting on the throne of the kingdom of heaven. The human nature, united to the divine nature of Christ, is the head of the church. The church is represented as having four faces; the face of a man, of an ox, of a lion, and of an eagle; and the likeness of a man's hand is under the wings of the four living things. The wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption of men, are in the Son of man. his fulness they receive every necessary grace. The fulness of God is in Christ; and he has the hand of a man to bestow blessings on us through the Holy Spirit. By virtue of the union of the two natures, in the person of Christ, the human nature received from the divine nature sufficient strength for that work, which was far beyond the power of the human nature alone to perform. The glory of Deity was often shining forth with splendor through his humanity. And when the divine nature in the person of Christ, would manifest itself like flaming fire, the winds and the waves must submit, the dead must hear his voice, and the buyers and sellers, and even the devils must obey. Behold, the men with torches, swords and spears falling before him as the flower of the grass, and the boasted strength and courage of corrupted flesh vanishing away before the God of all flesh.

Christ suffered more of the wrath and displeasure of God, from the sixth to the ninth hour, than all the vessels of wrath can ever suffer. Had it not been for the

union of the two natures subsisting in his person, he could not have endured the weight of the heavy load.—-' It was the human nature that suffered tortures of body and agony of soul; the divine nature supported it under those sufferings. It was the human nature that died and the divine nature gave such infinite virtue and efficacy to the sacrifice, so that it was of sweet smelling savour to God. His sweat and tears, his blood and death are of infinite value. Here God manifesteth the greatest mercy to poor sinners; the greatest hatred to sin; and the greatest equity to the divine law. The human nature received from the divine nature unspeakable honor and dignity; notwithstanding that Emmanuel died on the ignominious cross; yet the human nature died in union with the divine nature. I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, that was dead and am alive, says the adorable Saviour. The cross of Christ is the subject matter of the adoration and praise of men and angels.--Worthy is the Lamb, is the chorus in heaven above, and upon earth beneath. In the death of Christ the true God is answering by fire, and manifesteth himself the God of love. The human nature of Christ is the sacrifice that he offered for us, his divine nature is the altar upon which it was offered, which sanctified the gift, and by which offering the justice of God was satisfied and his Son honored and magnified.

And being made perfect. Aaron in his consecration was a type of Christ. In the 29th chapter of Exodus, we read of the Ram of consecration. The Ram of perfection in the original, or full Ram, as the word full sig nifies complete, mature, perfect. The two Rams that we read of in that chapter denoted the atonement and the intercession of Christ. Aaron was not to appear before the Lord, on behalf of the people, empty handed. Christ the High Priest of our profession, when he laid down his