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can possibly be given, that he is the Great and only True God?
Do you still doubt? and cannot you still see into the clearness and certainty of this proof? Let me then refer you to the book of the Prophet Isaiah, chap. xliii. 3. where you will find these words, “I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour;” and in the 11th. verse, “I, even I, am Jehovah, and beside me there is no Saviour;” and again, chap. xlv. 21. “There is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.” And again, chap. lx. 16. “Thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.” And in the Prophet Hosea it is expressed with equal decision, “I am Jehovah[1] thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me, for there is no Saviour beside me,” chap. xiii. 4.
What think you now, and what must every reasonable man think, of these testimonies from the Word of God? It is here asserted expressly by Jehovah Himself, the Eternal God who made the world, that he is the Saviour; and (observe) further, that there is no Saviour besides him: and yet in the same infallible Word of God it is asserted as expressly, over and over again, that Jesus Christ is the Saviour, and that he it is who shall save his people from their sins, Matt. i.
- ↑ It may here be proper to remark, for the information of the unlearned reader, that in our English translation of the Bible, the original term Jehovah is constantly rendered Lord, whereas it ought to have been rendered Jehovah, as in the passages here quoted.
