Produced by Heiko Evermann, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Transcriber's Note Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently corrected. Title page: "MEMORIES OF OF GENNESARET" changed to "MEMORIES OF GENNESARET" p9: Verse number "2." added to "Mark, viii." for consistency p23: "brethern" changed to "brethren" p106: "vail" changed to "veil" p124: duplicate word "one" removed p126: "the its great fountain" changed to "its great fountain" p128: "frowed" changed to "frowned" THE MIND OF JESUS. BY JOHN R. MACDUFF, D.D. AUTHOR OF "MORNING AND NIGHT WATCHES," "THE WORDS OF JESUS," "FAMILY PRAYER," "FOOTSTEPS OF ST. PAUL," "MEMORIES OF GENNESARET," "BOW IN THE CLOUD," "STORY OF BETHLEHEM," ETC. NEW YORK ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, No. 530 BROADWAY. 1860. The Mind of Jesus. THE MIND OF JESUS! What a study is this! To attain a dim reflection of it, is the ambition of angels--higher they can not soar. "To be conformed to the image of His Son!"--it is the end of God in the predestination of His Church from all eternity. "We shall be like Him!"--it is the Bible picture of _heaven_! In a former little volume, we pondered some of the gracious _Words_ which proceeded out of the mouth of Jesus. In the present, we have a few faint lineaments of that holy _Character_ which constituted the living exposition and embodiment of His precepts. But how lofty such a standard! How all creature-perfection shrinks abashed and confounded before a Divine portraiture like this! He is the true "Angel standing in the sun," who alone projects no shadow; so bathed in the glories of Deity that likeness to Him becomes like the light in which He is shrouded--"no man can approach unto it." May we not, however, seek at least to approximate, though we can not adequately resemble? It is impossible on earth to associate with a fellow-being without getting, in some degree, assimilated to him. So, the more we study "the Mind of Christ," the more we are in His company--holding converse with Him as our best and dearest friend--catching up his holy looks and holy deeds--the more shall we be "transformed into the same image." "Consider," says the Great Apostle (literally '_gaze_ on') "Christ Jesus" (Heb. iii. 1). Study feature by feature, lineament by lineament, of that Peerless Exemplar. "_Gaze_" on the Sun of Righteousness, till, like gazing long on the natural sun, you carry away with you, on your spiritual vision, dazzling images of His brightness and glory. Though He be the Archetype of all goodness, remember He is no shadowy model--though the Infinite Jehovah, He was "the _Man_ Christ Jesus."