forward in every part of this treatise, can alone be deemed of sufficient authority for the rejection or acceptation of the truths designed to be established, because the sacred text alone can be admitted as a competent authority for decision; and to which, on all occasions, the reader is respectfully referred and recommended. THE AUTHOr. CONTENTS. Scriptural Reasons assigned for computing the natural Day by the Evening and the Morning-The meaning of the words The record which Jehovah gives to the Divinity of Christ in heaven, together with the according witnesses to his hu- manity on earth, in a part of 1 John, v.-I, He that loveth God loveth his children, and keepeth his commandments- The natural Image of Christ compared with a part of the 13th chapter of Zechariah-1, The Fountain of Purgation for Jerusalem 2, From Idolatry, and False Prophecy- Short reflections on the agreement of arguments put forward to prove that the word "Image" when used by Moses in Observations on the Testimony which Jehovah has given to The meaning of the words "Image and Likeness" further The judicial character of Christ first displayed in his denun ciation of punishment against the serpent, Adam, and Eve, -Confirmed by accepting the offering of Abel, and rejecting that of Cain-Genealogies instituted, their primary object— A Recapitulation of the contents of the work, in which its different scriptural points forming the basis of argument are briefly treated on, in order to bring the whole contents of this treatise before the reader in a clear and condensed point of view-The birth of Christ as proclaimed' alike to Jew and Gentile, connected with the word “Image and Likeness", as attached to each word respectively by God the Word made flesh-The ascription of human passions and parts to God, 242 SCRIPTURAL ILLUSTRATION. ETC. CHAP. I. Scriptural reasons assigned for computing the natural day by the "Evening and Morning" The meaning of the words, "Image and Likeness" used in the History of the Creation of Man entered upon. THE history of the creation is the foundation of all religion, for without knowing his origin, man could have no just conception of his duty as a rational agent and a social being: resting on any other basis, all human knowledge and legislation must of necessity be inefficient for the preservation of public order, and wholly inadequate for man's instruction and government in the principles and practice of a holy life-and we know that without holiness no man shall see the Lord. As the illustration B of that small portion of the written word of God, with which I am about to present the reader, is the declared purpose of the Incarnation of the word, the Son of God, uttered before the creation of our great progenitor, the first Adam, who was of the earth earthly; it cannot, I think, be deemed needless, or irrelevant to my plan in writing this small treatise, to bring the eternal Divinity of Christ, who is the perfection and consummation of the law, before the reader in a scriptural light by the earliest testimony of divine revelation, for which end the detail of the first day of the creation, from the inspired Mosaic account, will be transcribed according to the original Hebrew language, which runs thus. "In the beginning the Gods created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters :" "And God said, let there be light, and there was light." "And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." "And God called the light day, and the dark |