And His treatment of them utters a loud warning, brethren, to us. The question, “What think ye of Christ?” is not addressed with its full force to open heretics—to Gnostics, in whose philosophy Christ is but one of many æons emanating from the hidden god of the Pleroma; to Arians, who make Him but an inferior and created god; to Docetæ, who teach that He never was more than the shadow, the ghost of a man; to Eutychians, who make Him a compound of GOD and man, partaking of both, yet being neither; to Unitarians, who regard Him but as a perfect and pre-eminently godlike man; to Universalists, who say that every one, righteous or unrighteous, submissive or rebellious, must be saved by Him at the last; to particular Redemptionists, who suppose that only a chosen few, themselves that is, shall be saved, and they without regard or care for their holiness or iniquity—it is not, I say, to them that this question is mainly addressed—it is to _us_; the orthodox, the enlightened, the receivers of the whole Word of GOD, the maintainers of the Three Creeds, the theoretical believers, that JESUS is the Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham, the seed of the woman, the Son of GOD, the Saviour, the Prophet, the Priest, the Vine, the Shepherd, the LORD, the King, the Judge. It is to us that the question is addressed with all its force—with how much of its rebuke—“What think ye of Christ?” Christians! what think ye of Christ? Ask and answer this question with all earnestness, as in the presence of Him who first put it, Who is true, and demands the truth, and the whole truth—and ask it, not of your minds, which it may be supposed are ready to assent to all that Holy Scripture sets forth respecting Him, but of your hearts, your heart of hearts, the seat of your affections, out of which are the issues of life—“What think ye of Christ?” And stay for a moment, pause at the threshold of the inquiry, and honestly consider whether you think of Him at all. Do you ever _feel_ that there was and is such a Being? Do you ever meditate on what He is, and what He has done, and is doing, and is yet to do for you? Do your affections twine themselves around what they can reach of Him, and yearn for a more perfect hold? Do your spiritual appetites crave food of Him? your spiritual understandings beg for light? In your sin, is He grasped as your Saviour? in your sorrow as your Sympathiser? in your troubles as your Helper? in your comforts as your Benefactor? in your hopes as your All? in your life, passive and active, as your LORD? Do you feel any of this about Christ, or do you only think of Him as of some historical person long since passed away, or as of some distant lord, who knows nothing, for the time, of his vineyard—some _future_ judge, whom you need not trouble yourselves about now, and yet whom you will not have to fear then? Is it only on Sundays, at church, by your bedside, that you think of Christ? Is it only as some ideal being, some