WHICH IS TO COME, THE ALMIGHTY,” [Rev. i. 8.]. Such a Christian is further persuaded therefore, and this on the authority of the BOOK OF REVELATION, that the HUMANITY of this SAVIOUR is a DIVINE HUMANITY, and thus is the ONE ONLY OBJECT of worship on the part of angels and men, being the DIVINE SOURCE of all LIFE, and consequently of every grace and virtue connected with life, and also of every truth and knowledge conducting to life, agreeable to the testimony of JESUS CHRIST Himself, “I am the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE,” [John xiv. 6.]. The sincere Christian then, in every article of his bodily food, sees and acknowledges the continual bounty of this GREAT GOD and SAVIOUR, and receives it, as from His own hand, with a becoming gratitude. In the food also of his mind, or in all the heavenly affections of love and of wisdom, of goodness and of truth, with which his mind is every day nourished and replenished from the WORD OF GOD, he is delighted to discern and confess the same bounty, ascribing all to the above DIVINE HUMANITY, and connecting all with this its benevolent and DIVINE SOURCE.
Behold here, then, the grand and ultimate end of all bodily eating and drinking, as presented to the view of the devout Christian, and exalted both in his life and practice! For in the idea of every such Christian all
