years ago. Of course, a vast accumulation of apparatus has grown up to hand since then. The German, the English, and the American schools have each furnished their quota of ripe scholarship. To mention no other, the works of Dr. Bloomfield alone would be a great addition to the critical and philological helps previously possessed. His Critical Digest of the best annotations of the New Testament, in eight volumes, is itself a library. His Greek Testament, with English notes, and his Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament, cannot but swell the stream of sacred criticism and interpretation almost to the level of its banks. The Andover school has contributed its share of respectable helps, among which Dr. Robinson's Lexicon to the New Testament, and Stuarts New Testament Grammar, are not the least. I am only sorry to witness the dead silence in Robinson's great work in reference to Parkhurst, the first and noblest of English lexicographers! I am not blind to his faults; but when a man does the best he can, I have it in my heart to forgive him many errors and mishaps. It seems to me that now, above any previous time, the competent scholar might come as near perfection in an English version, as is possible in a translation. Dr. Boothroyd correctly asks, "Of what use to the world are these stores of sacred literature, unless applied to their legitimate purpose, the improvement of the authorized version?" But, alas! popery is not confined to the Roman Catholics. This is the source of sects, and the fountain pollutes the stream, notwithstanding the strainers and sifters of the channels and pipes through which the polluted water passes.

TWO RESURRECTIONS.

J. HENSHALL.

THE CHRISTIAN AND THE IMMORTAL. "IN the likeness of Christ's resurrection," and in the resurrection immortal, are the two states of the saint. One is temporal, the other eternal; one is in the kingdom here, the other in the kingdom ultimate; one is in the tabernacle, the other in the house built without hands in the heavens. The likeness of Christ's resurrection is the pre-existent state of the resurrection to glory. All that is prophetic is adumbrated in the gospel, and this is the resurrection in type, in form. In Christianity, the way, the truth, and the life is manifested; we have arrived at the verge, and through the vista, resurrection is brought to light, and life and immortality appear. Jesus opened the tomb and arose," the first of them that slept," and has instituted a great type or "form of doctrine," in which those baptized into his death are planted together in the likeness of his death, and are raised up in the likeness of his resurrection, and anticipate the resurrection immortal.

This emblematic institution of the gospel is termed baptism; by it we are buried and resurrected with Christ, and occupy heavenly places in him. Figuratively in the resurrection, actually in the likeness of his resurrection: and if we fall asleep in Christ, "die in the Lord," God will bring us from the grave with him, so that the life that we now have in Christ Jesus, will in the resurrection be eternal, with glory and immortality. Our interment in the Christian sepulchre, and

resurrection with Christ to a new life, is typical of a literal resurrection from the dead to a life eternal. We are children of the resurrection, for we are risen with Christ, who is the first born among many brethren; our life is in him, we wait the resurrection immortal, then shall we be like him in life eternal.

When the Lord of life shall come to congregate again his saints, those that sleep with him by the resurrection immortal, shall enjoy life eternal. Having borne his image in time, we shall be like him in eternity. Being in the likeness of his resurrection, we are the heirs of the resurrection immortal, and when the mighty Deliverer comes to quicken this mortal, we shall put on immortality. Christ's resurrection is the earnest of ours, being the first fruits of them that slept and being in this likeness is our hope of being like him in glory by attaining the resurrection of the dead. Unto us are these precious promises presented, that we may be pure and holy as he, and hope to the end for the salvation immortal, ready to be revealed at the last day, when this humble body shall be clothed immortal, like unto the glorious person of the ascended Saviour, by the triumphant resurrection from mortality, and death to immortality and eternal life. Christ brought his baptismal type to a consummation by his resurrection from the dead, and is able to complete his promise to all those in his likeness. Being risen with him, we seek those things where he is, and when the last enemy shall have been destroyed, we shall gain the prize, for death shall be swallowed up by the victory given us by Jesus Christ. What mighty conquests we gain over sin and the grave in our Christian and immortal resurrections! In our resurrection in his likeness, what honour and glory! In being raised to "newness of life," what deliverance from the fear and bondage of sin and death! In Christ Jesus, what happiness and consolation! Being risen with Christ, what joy and hope in seeking the things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God! And oh the final, the immortal resurrection, and the weight of glory eternal that awaits us in heaven, on the bright morning of eternity, God will unfold! We wait in rapture divine the glorious consummation. Our thoughts, with angels, yea, inspiration fails to tell the things in store for the people of God. We would lay this tabernacle down and dwell with God, but must await the resurrection, that with the just we may appear and receive the crown of life.

The first resurrection is prospective of the second. Its blessings of time, the taste of everlasting joys, its institutions preparatory to endless pleasures, and its redemption from sin, an adumbration of a redemption from all evil. We are partakers in the gospel of our salvation by our resurrection with Christ in baptism, of all the blessings and promises of Christianity, with the eternal and immortal treasures and joys based on its most sacred types and institutions. The water and the grave are important ordinances: by the former birth we are born prospective of the latter, and the church "sanctified and cleansed by the washing of water by the word," may be presented in glory, chaste, without spot or wrinkle. Is the formation of our humble bodies like unto the glorious body of our Lord and Saviour, a creation of infinitude? then is the prior birth in Christianity of great import.

So of the resurrection of the dead to eternal life, and of the resurrection with Christ to a new life. There is a great grandeur and glory in the first of all the se institutions, but greater in the second;-glory enough in the first for the present, and glory and honour sufficient in the second for eternity.

What light is thrown on the benighted tomb by the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and what rays are thrown across the Jordan of death by our resurrection with Christ to a new life! Tis hope, the anchor of the soul, sure and steadfast, reaching within the vail whether our forerunner has for us entered. "We are baptized into Christ, and put him on." What glory gilds the Book of Life! Life and immortality were brought to light by the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and by our resurrection with him our names are registered in the Lamb's book of life. "Our life is hid with Christ in God," and when he shall appear, we also shall appear with him in glory by the great immortal resurrection. What a triumph over sin by our death to sin and resurrection to righteousness! What a deliverance from Satan in being translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdown of God's dear Son! But this is only the precursor of the triumph and victory when the last enemy shall have been destroyed by the resurrection to eternal life, and the translation from the prison house of death into the everlasting kingdom of glory and immortality.

The resurrection of Christ from the dead as an earnest, and our typical resurrection with him from the dead, as heirs of the resurrection of eternal life, are the most sublime and interesting events taught and brought to light in the Book of Life. Jesus the Prophet has clearly unfolded and exhibited the great events of eternity, by mighty and glorious events and types of time. The present illumines the future. Temporal things unfold eternal. Let the heavens be astonished and the earth give ear to the marvellous and stupendous development of the gospel, so glorious and godlike, for man's redemption, everlasting honour and glory.

He that humbleth himself shall be exalted," is a maxim of Christianity. Christ, our pattern, became obedient to death, and is exalted at the right hand of God, high above every name in heaven or on earth, that every knee should bow and tongue confess him Lord, to the glory of God. By this rule, if we humble ourselves and honour his death by a burial with him by baptisin into his death and arise to a new life, and continue faithful unto death, the spirit that raised up Christ from the dead shall quicken our mortal bodies and we shall be raised immortal. Though we fall asleep in Jesus, yet shall we be raised in his glorious image to immortality and eternal life, to reign with him in glory. W. S.

THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST.

LETTER SECOND.

DEAR SIR. Before I proceed to illustrate and apply the principles laid down in the first letter, there is a preliminary view of the whole question necessary to be taken. It is a heavy work to learn men to

take comprehensive views of the government of God. Yet there can be no full measure of divine life without an elevated survey. It is vain for men to look from dark dens through narrow windows on the vast spiritual empire of the Eternal. We must leave the cave where sloth and ignorance would keep us buried. We must ascend the mountain of vision though the ascent may be slow and painful. When the summit is gained, a landscape of etherial richness will stretch out before the kindling eye and the enlarging soul. In the still solemn hour of midnight let us lift our eyes to the heavens above. Millions of worlds, like our own, are spangled over

that high field. Myriads more stretch away beyond the range of the eye, or the power of the telescope. Stars, and suns, and systems, are flaming from the canvass of creation. Dream not that they are only decorative lamps for the ornament and convenience of a single world and a solitary race. Expand your thoughts, until you grasp the conception, that these mansions in our Father's house, are the abodes of life, intelligence, and moral agency. Rise higher still in contemplation. From the starry heavens, climb on, until you reach the heaven of heavens. The place where the God who fills and sustains the universal whole, manifests his divine countenance with peculiar splendour. In the midst of the uncreated light, loftier beings than the human stand near the central throne, and veil their faces with their wings while they give glory to the Holy One in songs and harpings of highest rapture and profoundest adoration.

There was a time when the sublime Sovereign surveyed all his works, material and intellectual, and found all" very good." All were in harmony, because all were solemnly subject to grand laws, which laws embodied the wisdom and love of the Creator. The life of God was in the rules of action which he gave, and while there was obedience to law, there was no discord in the dominions of the Lord. The benediction of the great Father flowed sweetly to all his children, angelic or human, through channels divinely appointed. Consider then, the Ancient of Days, glancing from his pavillion of light, on the immense commonwealth of the universe. Systems material, and beings intellectual and spiritual,-thrones and dominions,-powers and principalities,-cherubim and seraphim,-all hanging upon his arm, and rejoicing in his smile.

The first terrible glimpse which we have of moral discord, in this grand kingdom, brings before us a superhuman intelligence, alienated from God by ambition, and cast out from the society of his angelic peers, into the darkness of spiritual midnight. He abode not in the truth, and therefore could not remain in that region where truth remains in original, unsullied brightness. The guilty and the miserable seek fellowship in their wretchedness. This fallen spirit

looks with evil eye on our earth and its human lord, and being a liar and a murderer in soul, he determines, if possible, to make the false and the destructive, stern realities upon earth. He desires to drag others down into the same gulf of ruin and despair. Combining the malice of the fiend with the intellect of the archangel,-he seeks, by subtle malignity, to lay waste the fair creation of God, and widen the desolate territories of hell. Assuming the form of a serpent, he made the attempt, with what dire success, we know. The inhabitants of paradise were polluted and degraded. The gates of Eden were barred, and the tree of life guarded. The sentence of death fell upon man, and a curse upon the earth for his sake. Sternly and rapidly were the consequences manifest. Wasting toil became necessary to sustain life. Fierce and loathsome diseases appeared as the harbingers of death. Fires of passion were kindled which burned with exterminating fury, and by the glare you might perceive rivers of human blood, tossing and tumbling in pollution.

Look with a steady gaze upward and downward in the wide creation. Survey the characters which fill the theatre of moral agency. There is God-the Creator and Proprietor, the Legislator and Judge of the world. He is seated on his awful throne of justice and judgment, as the chief magistrate of the universe-the unsleeping guardian of all relations, and of all laws. A revolt has broken out in a province of his empire. His law of love is trampled upon as if it were the edict of a tyrant. It is a rebellion against unsullied justice, immortal truth, and infinite love. The criminals are arrested by a strong hand, and dragged before the tribunal. The satanic instigator of the transgression, looks on with dreadful joy, expecting that the thunderbolts of God will fall as they fell on his own brow, turning the earth into a lost star, to wander in blackness of darkness. Even holy angels, in their jealousy for God, desire a commission from God to exterminate the tares which poison the field of the world.

All beings, through creation, are interested in the settlement of the awful question pending. Such a tremendous crisis of governmental solemnity has never arisen. It is no private matter, but an affair involving in a vital manner, the well-being of the entire universe. O that we could be lifted up to the height of that transcendant grace which provided a remedy for such an extremity of evil, which struck out light from such unfathomable darkness, and caused love to triumph over such intense and diabolical hatred! It is here that we can construct the argument at which we have been aiming, and drive it home like a bolt from heaven. Let some mighty minister of God, sound a trumpet of summons, and make a proclamation :

"Who is there among the citizens of the universe who will engage to justify God in justifying man. His character for justice and truth