(u) Not the name of Jesus Christ will save us. No; but that life and light that was in him.—

Every one of us has the same light and life, according to his necessity, as Jesus Christ had in his proportion. (Sermon XI, Trenton, p. 295.)

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nameth this wonderful, powerful Name, then shall every knee bow, and tongue confess unto Him, the Judge of the world, either in a day of visitation in merto life eternal, or in condemnation unto punishment. Now the Lord Jesus Christ, having a real human body, subject unto death, as ours are, (x) He was crucified therein, according to the Scriptures, as a propitiation for the sins of the whole world, declaratory of the love and mercy of the Father to mankind universally, who sent his Son into the world, not to satisfy a vindictive justice, as that which is of man, which exacteth the utmost farthing, or else no satisfaction or forgiveness; but in the will of the Father, who sent him in love, to declare his love, goodness, and mercy, and forgiveness of sins unto all mankind, upon condition of faith in his Messenger, and repentance from dead works: "I will have mercy and not sacrifice."*

But though the human mind, of Christ was sepa-. rated from his body upon the cross, and so remained for a time, which is the common death; yet the word and mind were never separated from the time of their first union, nor ever can be, for then the whole Christ must have been dissolved and ceased; and the same Word, in the same human mind, resumed, the same human body; as saith the Lord Jesus: "No man "taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myself: "I have power to lay it down, and I have power to "take it again. This commandment I have received "of my Father."t

And as the separation of the mind and body is the natural death, even so is the separation between the soul [of man] and the Divine Life of the Son of God,

* Matt. ix, 13, xxi, 7. Hosea vi, 6.

† John x, 18.

(x) The immortal spirit in man is what constitutes the Son of God. Nothing but the immortal soul can become a Son of God, (Sermon II, North Meeting, p. 33.)

This light is in every one of us, we have all a manifestation of it, sufficient for our own end.

-That is, every one is enlightened by the same divine light that Jesus was enlightened with. And we receive it from the same source. He says "It is not I that do these things but the Father that dwells in me." (Sermon I, Mulberry street, p. 9.)

the death of the soul, by which she becomes totally corrupted, though not mortal in the manner that the body is; but [the soul] remaineth in this death, and yet liveth a sensual life in this corruption, until this corruptible put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality; until the breath of life from God, in infinite mercy, return into her, and restore her unto life, through faith in his Almighty Word: for in Him still is life, and that life is the Light of men; as it is also written, "Awake, thou that sleepest; and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee Light."* By this it appears, that though this Light is in all mankind as a saving gift from God in the nature of it, yet we are not sensible of it, as such, until we are quickened, in some degree, by the powerful voice of the Son of God; (y) according to that saying, "The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live."t It is remarkable, that the Son of God yielded up his life upon the cross, and was dead, before his blood was shed; ere the spear, in the hand of the soldier, made that large incision in his holy side, sufficient for the reception of a man's whole hand, piercing Him to the heart, whence issued both blood and water; as an infallible proof, that He was really dead, and of the Eternal and Almighty Power, which, under that natural impossibility, raised Himself from the dead.

But before He departed, and as He was upon the cross between the two thieves, He said to the believing and penitent one: "This day shalt thou be

(y) Although we have sinned and lived in the gratification of our own will and carnal desires, yet if we call on the Lord in humiliation, in sorrow, and distress, he will hear and be gracious to us. Let us then be willing to say "Gracious God, pardon my transgressions, and I will surrender up myself to thy holy will and disposal. Let me be the clay, and thou the potter. Make me what thou wouldst have me to be, This is the condition we must all come down to. It is the sacrifice of atonement, that we must all make to God Almighty. (Sermon V, Germantown, pp. 103, 4.)