17. But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. 1 TIM. VI, 13. I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession. TITUS II, 13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. REV. XIV, 4. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb. REV. XXI, 22. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 23. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (8.) _Christ Equal with God._ PHIL. II, 6. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. JOHN V, 17. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. JOHN X, 37. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works; that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. JOHN XIV, 9. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? JOHN XVII, 5. And now, O Father, glorify thou me, with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. JOHN XVII, 8. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. (9.) _Christ is styled God's Fellow._ ZECH. XIII, 7. Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. (10.) _Christ is called the Word of God._ JOHN I, 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. JOHN I, 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 4. DIVINE ATTRIBUTES POSSESSED BY HIM. (1.) _Eternity._ REV. XXII, 13. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. ISAIAH IX, 6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. REV. I, 17. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: