"We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

In the eighth chapter and the fiftythird verse it is written that the Jews put the following questions to our blessed Lord :-" Whom makest thou thyself?" Jesus answered :-" If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, ye say, that

he is your

God."

Here, then, are a multitude of distinct declarations from our Lord's own lips, that he was the Son of God, and many conveying the same fact by implication.

What now becomes of the infidel's assertion, that Christ never said he was the Son of God?

We have said that Infidelity is the offspring of a careless mind. Can anything

more clearly prove this than the above assertion of the infidel?

Imagine a man, skilled in all polite learning, and understanding several, both dead and living, languages, yet being so ignorant of the Holy Scriptures as to commit himself by making an assertion which every school-boy of ten years old could refute. Is such a man worthy to be employed in an official situation? Yet he holds a lucrative one in the government of his country! We could mention his name and surname, but the laws of Him whom he denies, forbid our doing so; we will, therefore, take leave of him, with this advice, that he will not, in future, expose his ignorance, by giving an opinion on matters of which he knows nothing.

There are innumerable other declarations and acts of our blessed Lord in testi

mony of his divinity, beside those we have mentioned.

It may not be at all out of place to state here the answer which our Lord

gave to the messengers of John the Baptist, when he sent them to Jesus, saying:-" Art thou he that should come? or look we for another ?"

"In the same hour our blessed Lord cured many of their infirmities, and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight." Having performed these things in the presence of John's messengers, Jesus then said unto them: "Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised."

There was a direct appeal to their senses, which as clearly proved the divinity

of Christ, as if the messengers had seen him seated on the right hand of the Father; for who but God, that is in his own name, and by his own power, could raise the dead, or perform the other miracles they had seen?

After desiring the messengers to tell John the things they had seen and heard, Jesus added:-" And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me.”

The Infidel would do well to consider, that, no man can come to the Father but by the Son; that those are not blessed to whom the name of Christ is a stumbling block, or cause of offence; that there is, in fact, only one road to heaven, and to happiness, which is by Christ Jesus.

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CHAPTER II.

CHRIST PERMITS WORSHIP TO HIMSELF. A SECOND PROOF OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY.

THE next proof of our Lord's divinity, is, that he received worship; he allowed himself to be worshipped.

Now had he been a mere man, and a good man as the Infidels allow he washe would not have suffered himself to be worshipped.

If the reader will be pleased to look into the Acts of the Apostles, chap. xiv., he will see that both Paul and Barnabas refused to be worshipped; at the 13, 14, and 15 verses, it is written: "Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their