Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.173mand of a compassionating God this multitude ofobjects itself should utter a cry in unison, callingfor One to come ; and that thus called upon thisOne should come, and that the multitude shouldattest together that the One had come: and sowe, discharged from the burden of this multitude,should come to One ; and dead in our soul bymany sins, and from our sin doomed to death inthe flesh, should love that One, who, being withoutsin, died for us in the flesh: and believing onHim when risen, and with Him rising again in theSpirit through faith, should be justified, being inthe One Just made one: and should not drising again in our very flesh, beholding our Headbeing One going before His many members; inwhom now, cleansed by faith, and hereafter restoredby vision, and reconciled by the Mediatorto God, we might inhere in the One, enjoy the One,and continue One for ever." Thus the Son of God, Himself at once theWord of God and Son of man, Mediator of Godand men, equal to the Father by the unity of thegodhead, and partaker of us through the assumptionof the manhood, interceding with the Fatherfor us through that which was man, yet not concealingthat as God He was One with the Father,thus speaks: * Neither pray I for these alone, butfor those also who shall believe through their wordon Me; that all may be one, as Thou, Father, artin Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be One