in consequence of his intimate union with the Deity. It follows, therefore, that Jesus Christ must be absolutely ignorant of the time of the last judgment to answer as he did; and that there is not in Jesus Christ those two natures, which serve for the basis of that distinction they have systematically framed; and that this distinction must be vain and chimerical."

FOUNDATION

OF OUR

CONFIDENCE IN THE SAVIOUR.

Ir is one of the popular objections against Unitarianism, that by denying that Jesus is the Supreme God, it weakens the ground of our confidence in him; that it destroys the value and efficacy of his teachings and cross, and thus fails of meeting the wants of the sinner; that it furnishes no adequate Saviour, and opens no fountain of true and lasting comfort and peace. This objec tion, it is the purpose of my present remarks to meet. I shall attempt to show, that the foundation of our confidence in Jesus remains the same, whatever views are entertained of his nature and person. We build not on the dignity of his nature, but on the commission he received from the Father to teach and to save. We view him as 'sent into the world' by the Father, as having come in the Father's name, and clothed with his authority, and on this fact we rest rest on the divinity of his mission. This simple fact, that Jesus was of, or from God, that is, was commissioned by him, acted under his direc

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tion and by his authority, we view as one of immense interest and importance, because it goes to show that Christians are in harmony on the most essential, we may say the only essential, point of faith. A belief of this one great and leading fact, entitles persons to the name of Christians, in the original and correct acceptation of the term, prepares them to listen to Jesus as one, who brought us the words of everlasting life, to go to him and to his religion for guidance, for support, and solace now, and to hope for the pardon and happiness to be hereafter dispensed in his name. Whatever different and conflicting sentiments men entertain concerning his person, as long as they admit this one fact, they stand on common ground. There is only one basis of their trust and hopes in Christ, and the speculations, in which they indulge on the subject of his original nature and essence, whatever conclusions they suggest, leave that basis untouched.

For proof of the correctness of our position, that the divinity, not of Christ's nature, but of his mission, furnishes the proper, and the only proper ground of trust in him, we must appeal to the sacred writings, and we do this. with the firm belief, that the evidence they afford on the subject is full and overwhelming. In all the New Testament, is there a word employed, or a hint dropped, which would lead us to suppose, that he saves us by virtue of his own unborrowed greatness? What was the sentiment he seemed particularly anxious to impress on the minds of those whom the fame of his wisdom, or of his miracles, drew around him? What the style, in which he addressed them? What the belief it unavoidably inspires? That the value of his ministrations depended on the original mode of his existence, or the time at which it commenced?