PRINCIPAL NOTES.-Gesenius on Elohim; p. 269.-Wet- stein on the N. T. Use of Terms of Singularity to denote Eminence; p. 282.-Michaelis, Seiler, Tittmann, and Capit. VIII. Miscellaneous Declarations of Christ, intimating the Existence and Action of a Superior Nature in himself 290 PRINCIPAL NOTES.-Owen on the Union without Inter- conversion, of the two Natures in Christ; p. 331.—On CHAP. V. On the State of Mind, and the Extent of Know- ledge, concerning the Person of Christ, which the Apostles possessed during the Period of their Attendance upon him 410 PRINCIPAL NOTES.-On some of the Antisupernaturalist Interpretations; p. 421.-On their Notions concerning a Saviour, the Expectations of the early Jews with regard ERRATUM. Page 394, line 4 from bottom, for 407 read 369. THE SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY ΤΟ THE MESSIAH. BOOK III. ON THE INFORMATION TO BE OBTAINED CONCERNING THE PERSON OF THE CHRIST, FROM THE NARRATIVES OF THE EVANGELICAL HISTORY, AND FROM OUR LORD'S OWN ASSERTIONS AND INTIMATIONS. Jesus the Messiah.-To him, therefore, all the attributes of the Messiah must attach. The testimony of the Christian Scriptures cannot but coincide with that of the Jewish. The real humanity of Jesus no objection to the existence of a superior nature.-Proposed method of the Inquiry. In the preceding part of this Inquiry we have endeavoured, with caution and scrupulosity, to collect the characters of the Messiah from the descriptions of ancient prophecy, and the divinely warranted expectations of those to whom the revelation was afforded. We have carefully analysed these descriptions, through the series of the Patriarchal and the Israelitish revelations; and the result is before the reader. Whomsoever we may find to be the Messiah, to him we are assured that all those characters must belong; and that, in some way to us unknown and mysterious, he is at once a man of sorrows, the descendant of Adam and Abraham and David, and yet possessed of the high attributes of the Lord God, the Eternal and Unchangeable Jehovah. All Christians believe that JESUS of Nazareth is the One and Only Messiah; and that to him, and to no other, all the characters of the Messiah belong, in their absolute reality and their broadest extent. Here, then, we might not unfairly close our case, and rise from the search, satisfied that the Author of our Religion is the Root as well as the Offspring of David, the Mighty God, as well as the Son given to us. But we have Christian Scriptures, the sequel and completion of the Jewish; the writings of the personal attendants and disciples of the Messiah, in addition to those of the Prophets, who had before testified of his sufferings and glories. If our conclusions are justly drawn from the Old Testament, they will certainly be confirmed by the declarations of the New. To the doctrine of the New Testament, therefore, we direct our attention as a further, but not an independent, branch of evidence. That Jesus Christ was and is really and properly a man, is maintained by the orthodox as strenuously as by the Unitarians. To bring evidence in proof of this point is, on either side, unnecessary; unless it were conceded that proper humanity implies necessarily a mere humanity; or, in other words, that it is impossible for the Deity to assume the human nature into an indissoluble union with himself. Such a union, let it be carefully remembered, is not a transmutation of either nature into the other; nor a destruction of the essential properties of either; nor a confusion of the one with the other. The question of such a union is a question of fact: and its proper, |