In presenting the following pages to the saints of God the writer earnestly beseeches his brethren to allow no reasoning upon the Person of the blessed Lord to dim the infinite grace and beauty which marks HIM wherever or however He is seen: whether in the lowly manger, trusting in God upon His mother’s breasts {Psa. 22:9}, or thence onwards to the Father’s throne in glory.
It is HIMSELF we should see wherever or however we behold Him. Moral glories surely there were shining forth in all His words and ways, but, above and beyond all that was of Him, there is HIMSELF to fill the heart an d to cause the affections to overflow in praise and adoration. HIMSELF, a Person, truly God and truly Man; no less God because in the fulness of the time He became Man and no less Man because He is eternally God; but uniting both Godhead and Manhood in the unity and indivisibility of His holy and inscrutable PERSON.
No personal question is here raised. The truth alone is involved, and the author of this paper has no feelings towards any of his brethren other than those of love and earnest desire for their blessing. May the Word and Spirit of God be their guide.
It matters not who it is that speaks, for it is written
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them (Isa. 8:20).