DISCOURSE I. PAGE ST. JOHN I. 1.--_In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God._ The Ages of the Church--St. John the Theologian--Accounts of him in the first Three Evangelists--His Jewish feelings--The opening Sentence of the Gospel--What Psalmists and Prophets mean when they speak of the Word of God--How Alexandrian Jews spoke of the Living Word--Confused opinions at the end of the First Century-- How the opening of this Gospel meets them 1 DISCOURSE II. ST. 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._ The same subject continued--How the Living Word was implied in all the teaching of the Old Testament--The Word, the Creator of the World--The Word enlightening human beings--The testimony of John to Him in this character 15 DISCOURSE III. ST. JOHN I. 29.--_The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world._ John the Baptist an Old Testament teacher--How St. John the Evangelist learnt his wisdom from him--His dialogue with the Pharisees--Wherein the Jews were wrong in their apprehension of the Christ--How John's message concerning Him that was before him met these confusions--His testimony to his own disciples concerning the Lamb of God 28 DISCOURSE IV. ST. JOHN I. 46.--_And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see._ The same subject continued--The Scape-Goat and the Lamb--Why the last is a more satisfactory image than the first--The Lamb identified with the Man--The Spirit and the Dove--John's Disciples following Jesus--Nathanael confessing the Man of Nazareth to be the Son of God--What was promised him hereafter 43 DISCOURSE V. ST. JOHN II. 11.-_This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth His glory; and His disciples believed on Him._ Miracles and Signs--The change from the desert to the feast--The dialogue between Mary and her Son--Effects of the Sign upon those who had not, and those who had, believed Jesus to be the Christ-- Christ giving His blessing to Marriage--Christ the spring of Life and Joy--The beginning of Signs--Object of St. John in recording them--Their message to us 57 DISCOURSE VI. ST. JOHN II. 16.-_Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise._