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and birth ; the time, place, and circumstances of it ; His 
early dangers ; His high and holy qualities ; His manner of 
life; His prophetical, priestly, and kingly offices; and the 
salient points of His death, resurrection, and ascension. 
Again, as to the Divine side of His character, we might 
advance from His marvellous generation to His Godhead, as 
witnessed by the ascription to Him of every attribute, title, 
and operation of Deity ; His headship over the Church ; His 
mediatorial dignity ; His office of dispenser of Divine gifts ; 
His designation to be the final judge. And, once more, and 
more noticeable as apparently conflicting predictions, and 
reconcilable only on the hypothesis of His conjoint nature, 
God-man, we learn that He was to be both Son of God and 
son of Man : David\s son, yet David^s Lord — Messias the 
suffering, yet Messias the glorified one. How, with only the 
indication of these points — and they might be largely extended 
— can we reconcile so many, so precise, and yet so diversified 
predictions; some, too, so unique, so inconceivable and seemingly 
so conflicting, all finding a full and exact satisfaction, a perfect 
embodiment in the person of Jesus Christ, save on the ground 
that the predictions and the accomplishments were both of 
God ? Can we evade the testimony to the truth of both 
dispensations which they afford, and therefore the stamp of 
accuracy, as a scientific basis, which they set upon the 
Sacred Books ? Nor is this a testimony of the past only, but 
a current and future testimony : the investigation and com- 
parison are as seasonable now as when they were first possible, 
and the witness they give appeals to every successive genera- 
tion and every individual student. 
We have a third example in the Jews as a people. And 
here I shall purposely pass by all the cumulative evidence 
which does not consequentially reach down to our day ; not by 
reason of any inherent defect or weakness in the facts, but in 
order to present only that which comes legitimately within the 
scope of exact observation. The Jewish people, then, con- 
fessedly once a nation among nations — a people of consider- 
able power and influence among powerful and influential 
peoples — played no mean part in the early history of our race. 
Their origin, consolidation, and career are not m3 7 ths of a pre- 
historic period, nor the details of their polity the conjectures 
and guesses of pre-historic times. They are records, and such 
records as are extant of no contemporary race. What the 
Jewish people are now is patent to the world. We say 
advisedly to the world, for they are everywhere, and every- 
where the same. A people — who can gainsay it ? — a people 
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