...nature itself, is communicated to it." We read but of One thus distinguished — who, in consequence, grew in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. But baptism was not the medium of that communication of which it is said : " God gave not the...

...permanent and unchanging. Christ, as God, is ' the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever :' as Man, he grew in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. So too in a certain sense has it heen with Christianity, even from the very first. Therefore was...

...holy Scriptures ; that Christ himself, when but twelve years of age was found in the temple, that he grew in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. Recollect these examples, and resolve to cast in your lot with the righteous. GB (To be continued.)...

...very God. What was circumcised ; what sought knowledge of the scribes and doctors in the temple ; what grew in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man ; what was in subjection to his parents ; what was baptized in Jordan ; what was tempted of the...

...preserved from all error, but furnished with all necessary knowledge of the will of God. As the church grew in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and man, the extroardi. nary gifts of tongues and prophecy were gradually withdrawn, and their place was...

...blessedness, and fix it there for ever. Agreeably hereto, the Scripture recordeth, that the Lord Jesus Christ grew in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. That human reason which he took, he did inform with his personality of the eternal Word; and receiving...

...blessedness, and fix it there for ever. Agreeably hereto, the Scripture recordeth, that the Lord Jesus Christ grew in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man. That human reason which he took, he did inform with his personality of the eternal Word ; and...

...breaking it, and then repairing the vessel by a miracle — and many otherthings equally foolish. " He grew in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man." At twelve years of age he was found in the temple, in the midst of the doctors, both hearing...

...public ministry, was clearly displayed as inherent in the Lord Jesus Christ. If we hear it said that he grew in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and man ; if we find hini'receiving intelligence like other men, and praying as he taught them to pray,...

...intellect and feeling he attained to an exquisite degree of perfection, which we cannot conceive ; he grew in wisdom and in stature and in favour with God and man. He never felt all the evil of sin till on the cross ; then the eye of his intellect fully beheld...