poral, but from spiritual enemies; not from the mere terror of dying, but from the pains of eternal death. To preserve us from the fatal consequences of the fall, fatal without the intervention of a remedy, he appeared on earth; and as, " without shedding of blood" there is no remission," he gave himself for us " a lamb without blemish, and without spot," + and "put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." ‡ He has, moreover, revealed to us the way of salvation, through repentance, faith, and obedience, having "brought life and immortality to light through the Gospël," § and has reconciled us by his righteousness and sufferings to his Father, hav ing gained for us an access to glory by virtue of his Merits and Blood. May not he, then, who has saved us from the wrath of God, and purchased for us eternal life, be termed, in a more eminent manner than any other that has ever lived, Jesus our Saviour? Let every knee" therefore, bow at the name of Jesus, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;" * " for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." +

To his name Jesus is attached the title of Christ, which is of the same import as Messiah, and signifies, The Anointed.

The act of anointing with oil, under the Mosaic Law, was performed, when any person was set apart for an office of highest dignity. This custom had ceased among the Jews long before our Saviour's coming. And of the three sacred offices of King, Priest, and Prophet, that of Priest alone remained. It appears, therefore, that Jesus was not anointed with oil. How, then, was he anointed? He was anointed by the Effusion of the Holy Spirit upon him, particularly at the time of his Baptism, when he received his divine commission to manifest himself openly to the world. The ceremony of anointing with oil was a type of the high consecration of the Messiah by the Spirit of God to the

three sacred offices of King, Priest, and Prophet; which offices were all in a remarkable and peculiar manner filled by Christ."

He was a King, not indeed in a temporal, but in a spiritual sense; and in this latter sense, the regal office of the Messiah is evidently represented by prophecy. The Angel had said unto Mary, "Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a Son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his Father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end.' But in order to show, that his kingdom was not of this world, and that he was not come to exercise the authority and power of an earthly Sovereign, he performed a miracle, that he might escape out of the hands of those, who would have made him a King. Yet to evince, that prophecy had rightly declared his regal

* Luke, i. 31, 32, 33.

character, he rode upon an ass, in humble state, from Bethphage to Jerusalem, and permitted himself to be greeted by the multitude as the King Messiah; "Hosanna to the Son of David Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest."* He, likewise, openly asserted, "My kingdom is not of this world." traba

of truth; not by victories achieved over the potentates of the world, but by conquests gained over the rulers of darkness. His sceptre was a sceptre of holiness, a sceptre to humble the high conceits of mankind, to subdue the bad passions of their nature, to rule his people with equity and justice, to protect them from spiritual danger and spiritual malice, and to smite all those, who, resisting the evidences of his Omnipotence, and the authority of his laws, would not submit to his dominion. On earth, therefore, he was the King Messiah; and although, according to prophecy, he was " cut off, but not for himself," * he has established a kingdom of grace and truth that will never have an end.

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"God raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and hath put all things under his