Let us notice the life of our most adorable Saviour. First, as God--He liveth from eternity; he is the living God, he is emphatically called life, the true God, and our eternal life; and this is the eternal life which John says was manifested: the very knowledge of whom is eternal life begun in the soul. In his divine essence, his eternal nature, he is the self-existent, independent Jehovah; underived, unoriginated, and incommunicably God, without beginning, succession, or end; without the shadow of a change; he is eternal, immortal, who only hath immortality from everlasting to everlasting; and of his years there is no end; _one_ in the divine Trinity, co-equal, co-essential, and co-eternal with the Father and the Holy Spirit; one in the sacred society of the adorable Trinity, enjoying the most inconceivable delight and complacency in his own divine perfections; and in the holy _ones_, the Father and the Spirit; the divine nature, essence, and perfections were not communicated to him as God, but were originally, independently, and eternally his own, in conjunction with the Father, and the Holy Spirit--and as the self-existent God, he has solemnly declared to all the enemies of his Godhead--"If ye believe not that "I AM"--ye shall die in your sin."--This awful truth, one would think, is enough to put to silence all the cavil in the world against the divinity of the Son of God, as God. Some indeed admit all that can be said about his divinity, but they vainly suppose that his Godhead was communicated to him from the Father; but this thought is an awful insult upon him, no better than high treason and daring blasphemy. Let such read again and tremble,--"If ye believe not that I AM--ye shall die in your sins." "I AM," is the self-existent, independent God--and as the living God, he is author of all the life which has been, or shall be given to creatures; in him was life, for by him were all things made, and by him do all things subsist, created by him, and upheld by him; and, while I exist as God, ye shall live also.