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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES OF SERMONS. THE CREATORSHIP AND DIVINITY OP JESUS CHRIST. John, i., 2, 3: The same was in the beginning with God. Ml things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. [Preached at Bridge-street Chapel, Bristol, Aug. 15, I-J! i The divinity of Jesus Christ has always been considered by Christians as the chief corner-stone in the edifice of Christianity. Those who have surveyed all parts of the Christian system with the closest attention, and who have been most deeply influenced by the spirit of religion, have in every age evinced the greatest attachment to this fundamental doctrine. Nor have they regarded it as merely a sublime and abstruse speculation, but as intimately connected with Christian holiness. Were it true that it is a mere speculation, it would indeed be little worth our earnestly contending for; since the grand object of all that is revealed is unquestionably our personal and practical improvement. But it is found to have the most powerful influence on this; it involves the greatest of all motives to Christian piety and obedience; and hence it justly occupies a most important place in the Christian system: hence the beloved disciple lays the foundation of his gospel record in this article, and begins with tracing the existence of Jesus Christ to a higher state of being, exhibiting Him as incarnate Deity, as Emmanuel, God with us. In the beginning, says he, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him. And the Word was made flesh.?(John, i., 1-3, 10, 12, 14.) Of the many Scripture arguments for His divinity, one of the chief is that which arises from His cre...