"I am the bread of life. This is the bread descending down from heaven; that if any one eat of it, he may not die. I am the living bread, which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread which I will give, is my flesh for the life of the world." Verse 48-52.

"Then Jesus said unto them: Amen, Amen, I say unto you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me. and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, the same shall live by me. He that eateth this bread, shall live for

ever." Verse 54-59.

"But Jesus knowing in himself, that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: doth this scandalize you? If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?" Verse 62, 63.

"Then Jesus said to the twelve: will you also go away? And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we have believed and have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of God." Verse 68-70.

"I know him, (the Father,) because I am from him, and he hath sent me." John vii. 29.

"If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. He that believeth in me, as the scripture says, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Verse 37, 38.

"I am the light of the world: he that follows me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life." John viii. 12.

"I am not alone; but he that sent me, the Father." Verse 16. "If you did know me, you would know my Father also." Verse 19.

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They said therefore to him: who art thou? Jesus said to them: The Beginning ; who also speak to you." Verso 25.

"Now they did not know that he said: God was his Father." Verse 27.

"As the Father hath taught me, I speak these things." Verse 28.

"If therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed." Verse 36.

"If God were your Father, verily ye would love me. For I proceeded and came from him." Verse 42.

"Abraham your Father rejoiced that he might see my day : he saw it and was glad. The Jews then said to him: thou art not yet fifty years old; and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said to them: Amen, Amen, I say to you: Before Abraham was made, I am. Then they took up stones to cast at

him." Verse 56-59.

"And Jesus said to him, (the man born blind,) dost thou believe in the Son of God? He answered and said: who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him? And Jesus said to him: Thou hast seen him, and it is he who talketh with thee. And he said, I believe, Lord; and falling down he adored him.". John ix. 35-38.

"Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life that I may take it again. No man taketh that away from me: but I lay it down of myself; and I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it up again." Verse 17, 18.

"And I give them, (my sheep,) life everlasting and they shall not perish for ever: and no man shall snatch them out of my hand. No man can snatch them out of the hand of my Father; I and my Father are one. The Jews then took up stones to stone him. The Jews answered him: for a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God, Jesus answered them: IfI do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe, that the Father is in me and I in the Father. They sought therefore to take him, and he escaped out of their hands."

"This sickness, Jesus said, is not unto death, but for the

glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it." John xi. 4.

"Martha saith to him, that he, (Lazarus,) shall rise again. in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live. And every one that liveth and believeth in me, shall not die for ever. Believest thou this? She saith unto him: yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ the Son of the living God, who art come into this world." "He that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. I the light, am come into the world; that whosoever believeth in me, may not remain in darkness." John xii. 45, 46.

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Knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came from God." John xiii. 3.

"You call me Master and Lord

Iam. Verse 13."

and you say well for so

"You believe in God, believe also in me.

I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me. Philip saith to him: Lord, show us the Father and it is enough for us. Jesus saith to him: have I been so long a time with

Philip, he that seeth me,

you, and have you not known me? seeth the Father also. How sayest thou, show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father, who abideth in me, he doeth the works. Believe you not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? otherwise believe for the works themselves. Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do. And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever, the spirit of truth, because he shall abide with you, and shall be in you. In that day you shall know that I am in my Father. He that loveth me, shall be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. If any one love me, my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make an abode with him. The

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Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things." John xiv. 1-31.

"I am the true vine.... Remain in me and I in you.... I am the vine, you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing." John xv. 1-5.

"When the spirit of truth shall come, he will teach you all truth; for he shall not speak of himself. He shall glorify me; because he shall receive of mine and will declare it to you: In that day, you shall ask in my name: And I say not to you that I will ask the Father for you. For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from God. I came forth from the Father, and am Again I leave the world and I go to the

come into the world.

Father. John xvi. 13-26, 27, 28.

As thou hast given him

"And lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus said: glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee. power over all flesh, that he may give life everlasting to all whom thou has given him. And this is life everlasting: that they may know thee,, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyelf, with the glory which I had before the world was. Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me, may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me : because thou hast loved me before the foundation of the world.” John xvii. 1, 2, 3, 5, 24.

"As soon then as he said to them: I am he: they went backward, and fell to the ground." "The chalice which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?" "Pilate therefore said to him: art thou a king, then? Jesus answered: thou sayest that I am a king: For this was I born, and for this came I into the world." John xviii. 6, 11, 37.

"The Jews answered him, (Pilate,) We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die; because he made himself the Son of God." John xix. 7.

"Thomas answered and said to him: my Lord and my God." "Many other signs also did Jesus in the sight of

his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written that you may believe, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God: and that believing, you may have life in his name. John, xx. 28, 30, 31. "And Peter said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee." John, xxi. 17. Let us stop here; for were we to transcribe whatever has a more or less bearing on the Godhead of Jesus Christ, especially in the New-Testament, we would have to insert in these our sheets the greater part of it. On an attentive perusal of the above extracts, the following reflexions intrude themselves irresistibly on the mind of every reflecting reader.

1st. The grand Unitarian principle is, that the scriptures, being intended for the instruction of mankind, must speak a plain and intelligible language, and that it would be absurd in the extreme to suppose that God hath ever spoken to men in a hidden or mysterious language. Accordingly, in reading the above passages, we are not to look for hidden places, unintelligible mysteries, but we are to take them in their plain, obvious, and natural meaning. Well, let us admit, for the moment, the principle in all its extent, and proceeding on it, argue thus:

Of all books extant in the world, there is none that will be more unintelligible, more sealed without and within than the New-Testament, and in particular the above quotations; and there is no instance of a subversion of language in any mo. dern or ancient writer, so shocking and so total, as will be that which occurs in the solemn declarations of the heavenly Father, in the speeches of his only-begotten Son, and in the oracles of the Holy Ghost, which are contained in the NewTestament, unless we set it down as an undoubted doctrine,

I. That Christ our Lord existed before the foundation of the world, that he was from all eternity with God, and of course existed before he was born of the blessed Virgin Mary, and that he is not a mere man.

II. That God is the true and natural Father of Jesus Christ, and that Jesus Christ is the true, natural, and consubstantial