blessings. He said, "Because I live, ye shall live also:"[1] as the existence of His life is given as a Divine reason why we live; so the perpetuity of that life is a Divine reason why mankind should be continued. The Lord most plainly came into the world to provide for the continuance of mankind; and how reasonable is the conclusion that He then glorified His humanity to the end that there always should be a people to instruct and save. The circumstance, then, of God having become flesh and dwelt among us, ought to be accepted as affording one of the most distinguished arguments in proof of the Divine intention to maintain for ever in the world a race of rational beings, with whom He has mercifully associated Himself, by the assumption and glorification of their nature.
- ↑ John xiv. 19.
delivers up the kingdom to the Father;—truth delivers up its rule to the government of goodness, that goodness, or the Father, may be all in all. These are some of the ideas which underlie the Apostle's teachings in the above passage, and not the marvellous imagination of the Saviour's ceasing to be a Saviour, which is obviously involved in the notion that His mediatorial office is to cease.
