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a friend at the time, afterwards published in a small volume as 

 The Mysteries of God. This was to him a deeply interesting 

 work for God, and written with much prayer that it might be 

 blessed to His children. He had so often been requested by 

 members of his congregation, and others, to write and publish 

 his discourses, that at length he consented. As he went on with 

 these expositions, they were of the deepest interest to us both, 

 unfolding so much of Scripture that had not, in its fullest depth, 

 been previously discovered to us, especially in the three chapters 

 on ** The Psalms." He says at the commencement : '^ An effort 

 is here made, in the fear of God, to search for heavenly wisdom as 

 for hid treasure beneath the surface of the Word ; to examine the 

 lively oracles as with a microscope, persuaded they will be found 

 well worthy of the closest research. Some of the essays may 

 seem to some abstruse, and may be thought to be mere idle 

 speculation. But, if carefully weighed, I hope they will be 

 found to rest on the revealed mind of God in every particular. 

 I have advanced nothing. I have anticipated nothing on mere 

 speculation. For every statement that I have made I have 

 aimed to rest on the inspired Word. I have desired strictly to 

 limit myself to the elucidation of what is written in the Book. 

 The constant reference to the very words of the Holy Ghost will, 

 I trust, plead my apology for what may seem a dogmatic tone. 

 As His trumpet gives no uncertain sound, so, as the whole tenour 

 of Scripture shows, believers are expected to k7iowvi'\\\\ confidence 

 the things which are freely given them of God. We have the 

 mind of Christ." 



My dear husband was especially scriptural on the atoning 

 sacrifice of Christ, who suffered, "the just for the unjust;" also 

 on the supernatural humanity and sinlessness of the Son of 

 Man. He expressly states, "I hold that, under the righteous 

 government of God, suffering of any kind or degree is impossible, 

 save as the just wages of sin. But since the holy Child Jesus 

 suffered as soon as He came into the world, as He was made 

 under the Law, and since in Him was no sin, of what was this 

 suffering the wages, but of that iniquity of us all, laid on Him, 

 exacted, and for which He became answerable? (Isa. liii. 6, 7). 



" The Psalms reveal to us that the Holy One was vicariously 

 bearing throughout His life the iniquity and reproach of man, 



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