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THE SCIENCE OF CORRESPONDENCE.

tion with the Lord and consociation with the angels of heaven."

THE INCARNATE WORD.

As the Word is always creating, producing new forms of use, and by perpetual influx into things made, sustaining and relating all things; so the Word is always revealing, giving new Scripture as it is needed, in continual adaptation to changing and unfolding needs of man, and, by perpetual influx into the things written, "opening in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." And in the development of this eternal nature and necessary endeavor of the Word, to recreate from sin, and save in life eternal, the "Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, (the glory of the Divine wisdom begotten of the Divine love,) full of grace and truth."

The Lord Jesus Christ is Jehovah God in His Divine Humanity; the Word, taking on the human spirit and body which He had made, that He might bring the Divine truth into vital and redeeming contact with the life of man, and impart to him power to be saved through the truth. Christ was not a second person in the Godhead, not a man