witness in favour of the Divinity of Christ. In the 5th section of his Catholick Epistle, he says, "The Lord was content to suffer for our souls, "although He be THE LORD OF THE WHOLE “EARTH to whom God said, before the begin"ning of the world, Let us make man after our "own image and likeness." Again, in the 7th section, he says, "If therefore the Son of God, "who is LORD OF ALL, and shall come to JUDGE "BOTH THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, hath suffer"ed, that by his stripes we might live, let us "believe that the Son of God could not have "suffered but for us." Surely He who is LORD OF THE WHOLE EARTH-LORD OF ALL—and who will JUDGE THE QUICK AND DEAD, can be no other than a Divine Person.

Clemens Romanus was probably born before the middle, and wrote towards the close, of the first century. As is generally supposed, he was personally acquainted with most of the Apostles, and seems to have been the same person whom saint Paul speaks of as his fellow labourer. All the writings of this Father which have reached us, are comprised in a few pages. In these, though he no where treats formally or

professedly on the subject in hand, he incidentally expresses himself in the following manner "For Christ is theirs who are humble, and "who do not exalt themselves over his flock. "The sceptre of the MAJESTY OF GOD, OUR "LORD JESUS CHRIST, came not in the shew of

pride and arrogance; though He could have "done so; but with humility, as the Holy "Ghost had before spoken concerning him. "And again-"God is good to all, especially "to those who flee to his mercy through our "Lord Jesus Christ, TO WHOM BE GLORY AND "MAJESTY FOREVER AND EVER. Amen!"

Polycarp, who flourished in the beginning of the second century, and who suffered martyrdom under the emperor Marcus Antoninus, about A. D. 167, in a short Epistle to the Phillippians, the only writing of his which is now extant, writes thus. "Mercy and peace unto you, "from God Almighty, and the Lord Jesus "Christ, our Saviour, be multiplied.Every “living creature shall WORSHIP CHRIST+Now "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, "and he himself, who is our everlasting High "Priest, the Son of God, Jesus Christ, build

"you up in faith and truth, and in all meekness "and gentleness, and grant unto you a lot and "portion among his saints!God is good to "all, especially to those who flee to his mercy, "through our Lord Jesus Christ; to whom be "glory and majesty forever and ever. Amen!"

After the death of Polycarp, the church of Smyrna, of which he had been pastor, wrote a circular letter to other churches, in which they gave an account of his sufferings. From this letter we learn, that, when he was at the stake, he addressed a prayer to God, which he concluded with this doxology-"For all things I praise "thee, I bless thee, I glorify thee, together with "the eternal and heavenly Jesus Christ, with "whom unto thee, and the Holy Spirit, be glory "both now and forever, world without end. "Amen!"-The same epistle informs us that, after his death, the Jews suggested to the heathen judge, that he should not suffer the Christians to take his body and bury it, lest they should leave the worship of their crucified Master, and begin to worship Polycarp. "Not con"sidering," says the epistle-"that we can "never either forsake the worship of Christ,

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"who suffered for the salvation of those who "are saved in the whole world, the just for the "unjust, or worship any other. For we woR"SHIP HIM as being the SON OF GOD; but the "martyrs we only love, as they deserve, for their "great affection for their King and Master, and "as being disciples and followers of their Lord, "whose partners and fellow disciples we desire "to be."

The next witness whom I shall adduce is Ignatius, who suffered martyrdom under the Emperor Trajan, A. D. 107. In his Epistles the following passages occur.*

The salutation of his Epistle to the Ephesians, is in these words-❝ Ignatius, who is also called "Theophorus, to the church which is at Ephe"sus, in Asia, most deservedly happy; being "blessed, through the greatness and fullness of

The author is aware, that the authenticity of the Epistles of Ignatius, has been called in question, as well as that of Barnabas, before quoted. It is impossible in a work written on the plan, and with the design, of these Letters, to enter into the merits of controversies of this sort. It is sufficient for his purpose to say, that the great body of learned men consider the Epistle of Barnabas, and the smaller Epistles of Ignatius, (and from these alone he offers quotations) as, in the main, the real works of the writers whose names they bear. Of this opinion was the eminently learned Unitarian, Dr. Lardner.

"God the Father, and predestinated before the "world began, that it should be always unto an "enduring and unchangeable glory; being uni❝ted and chosen through his true passion, ac"cording to the will of the Father, and Jesus "Christ OUR GOD; all happiness, by Jesus "Christ, and his undefiled grace." In the 7th section of the same Epistle, he says, "There is ❝one Physician, both fleshly and spiritual; "made and not made; GOD INCARNATE." And again, in the 19th section-"Ignorance was "taken away, and the old kingdom abolished, "GOD HIMSELF APPEARING IN THE FORM OF ❝ A MAN."

Toward the close of his Epistle to the Magnesians, he expresses himself thus-" Study, "therefore, to be confirmed in the doctrine of "our Lord, and of his Apostles; that whatso"ever ye do, ye may prosper, both in body and "spirit; in faith and charity; IN THE SON, and "in THE FATHER, and in the HOLY SPIRIT."

He begins his Epistle to the Smyrneans thus "I glorify God, even Jesus Christ, who has "given you such wisdom." And in the close of