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elders fell down and WORSHIPPED HIM THAT LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER."

Yes, my brethren, "God also hath highly exalted HIM, and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father." And when the end of all things shall come "then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and we shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of trumpets and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."

That the Saviour as the Son of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, is to be worshipped even as we worship the Father, might thus be proved by all those passages of Scripture in the Old Testament, which are declared in the New to be prophetical of Christ, and in which the supreme and divine honor of Jehovah is ascribed to Him,-by those texts in the New Testament in which divine worship and honor are commanded to be paid and are represented as actually rendered to Christ;-by those passages which shew that prayer is enjoined to be offered to Christ, and was, as has been seen, addressed to Him on various occasions by the disciples, by the thief upon the cross, by the dying martyr Stephen, by Paul, and by the christians as a body;-by the fact that Christ is invoked in the apostolic benediction, and in frequent prayers in the epistles, for grace, mercy and peace, for comfort, strength and guidance to believers;— by the ascription to Him of supreme adoration, glory, power and blessing, from the whole church in heaven and on earth,by the fact, that thanksgivings are presented to Him for his grace; by the fact that the sacred ordinance of baptism is to be performed in His name, together with that of the Father, and the Holy Ghost-by the fact that our whole service, whether living or dying, is to be done unto Him, and not unto man, as we are elsewhere commanded to live only to God;— and that God, therefore, is so manifested in the Lord Jesus Christ, and so united to, and one with, Him, that in worshipping the Son we are at the same time worshipping the Father. Again therefore let me say, "Blessed is the man that trusteth in HIM."

"And now let us," to use the language of Milton, who is most wrongfully regarded in any of his works, as advocating the system of Unitarian faith, let us "turn our eyes, and lift up our hands to that eternal and propitious Throne, where nothing is readier than grace and refuge to the distresses of mortal supplicants. Thou, therefore, that sittest in light and glory unapproachable, Parent of angels, and men! next, thee I implore, omnipotent King, Redeemer of that lost remnant whose nature thou didst assume, ineffable and everlasting Love! And thou, the third subsistence of divine infinitude, illumining spirit, the joy and solace of created things! one Tripersonal Godhead! look upon thy poor church, to thyself now unite us entirely, appropriate us to thyself, tie us everlastingly in willing homage to the prerogative of thy eternal throne, where in supereminence of beatific vision, progressing the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity we shall clasp inseperable hands with joy and bliss in over measure forever."

Unitarianism Another Gospel.

A SERMON

Occasioned by the Recent Discourse of the Rev. Samuel Gilman, D. D., on the Discourse of Rev. E. P. Humphrey, D. D.

BY THE

REV. THOMAS SMYTH, D. D.

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