salvation, by the teaching and leading of the Holy Ghost. This is the harmonious witness in the word, and I bless God for the same in the heart. There are three which bear witness; and he that believeth on the Son hath the witness in himself; and this is the witness, the Father says, _Yea I have loved thee_; the Redeemer says, _I have redeemed thee_; and the voice of the Spirit is known, _I have called thee_. This is the point I want you, my brother, to apprehend, to feel, and enjoy. This is a religion that will stand the test, will bear the furnace, and all religion, besides what comes from, and leads to the adorable Trinity, is madness, delusion and daring presumption! This is the _maker_ or MAKERS—CREATORS, _father_, _husband_, _friend_, and _God_. The wise man not only points out the glorious Object, but the Work in which they are engaged, even the Work of Creation. These glorious Persons having formed the grand plan of salvation, which was the first great act of Jehovah, in Council and Covenant, now brings forth the grand theatre of the Universe, whereon to display the glories of rich, free, restoring grace; and this act of power, love, wisdom, and goodness, is the joint Work of the _three Persons_; as the word _God_ is a plural term, _Elohim_, or as some term it _Alehim_—the Persons engaged, the Covenanters. This is a point that has been long proved by good and great men—the several acts of Creation—God created the heaven and earth, formed both; then the Spirit’s, act—_and the Spirit of God_, the Lord and giver of life, _moved upon the face of the waters_, to separate the parts which were mixed together, and to give them a quickening virtue, to produce living creatures in them. Then the Saviour is represented as saying, _Let there be light_, _and there was light_. This came from himself, who is called the Light of the World. _And God said_ (this is repeated nine times over; and as the term God is plural, and includes the Three, there is great propriety and beauty in the expression) _Let_ US _make man in_ OUR _image_, _after_ OUR _likeness_. This consultation is designed to point out that honor and dignity that was to be conferred on Man, the noblest work of all his creatures—_in his image_, as God’s vicegerent; having dominion over the creatures; erect in his body; with every excellent endowment of his mind; in purity, holiness, and righteousness; in wisdom and beauty—thus man was made in his image. But though this is a great truth, yet I humbly conceive this is not all; from all eternity God had a favour towards man; and having exalted the dear Saviour to be the great Head of the Church, he set him up in the nature of his people, so that Adam was formed in the nature, in the very image which God had designed to honour Christ in; that image made he man: this was agreeable to divine consultation. In this image our dear Lord four thousand years afterwards made his appearance; and this was the joint work of the Holy