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tween them, but the possessive pronoun His also; “His Redeemer,” &c. This would seem to furnish additional evidence that two distinct persons are here named, if the contrary were not so apparent as to admit of no dispute.

But without anticipating objections, or stopping here to answer those that have been made, let us endeavor to learn what the Sacred Scripture teaches respecting the person, or the supreme and sole divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ. For the question is one which the Scripture alone must decide.

It is written in Is. 7: 14, “The Lord himself shall give you a sign: Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel,”—i. e. God with us. And in the first chapter of Matthew, after the account of the birth of Christ, it is written, “Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying, Behold a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel; which, being interpreted, is, God with us.”

From this it appears plain that Jesus Christ is God with us; and if we have any other God, or think of any other besides Him, do we not acknowledge more Gods than one?

Again, in Is. 9: 6,7, “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall