name."

The blessed God declared Himself by the name in which He revealed Himself. His name to Abraham was God Almighty; and the fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, knew Him by that name. Great, truly, was the faith awakened in their hearts in knowing God as the Almighty, and many now might long to be in equal power. Surely we may well say that, as to fact, however advanced our privileges, or however enlarged our blessings, we have not come up, in practical walk, to those saints who only knew Him as the Almighty God. The name declared the measure in which God had revealed Himself, or could be then known, and however great the measure of any one's faithfulness or devotedness, in that day, his relation to God could not rise higher than relation to Him as the Almighty.

It would be interesting to trace the privileges, power, and blessings which were known by the faithful in that day, in relation to God as the Al

mighty. Abram, believing in the word of God Almighty, left country and kindred for an unknown one. Abraham served his brother, risking everything to do it, knowing God only as the Almighty, and by Him was he blessed by Melchizedek in the name of the Most High. Abraham saw Christ's day, and was glad. Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness; and yet he did not know God in any higher way than as the Almighty. Abraham offered up his son, Isaac, counting that God was able to raise him up from the dead, and, because of this, God said, "in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice."

Thus, also, we read of the elders, in Hebrews xi., though knowing God only as the Almighty, they declared plainly that they seek a country. God hath prepared for them a city. "But now they seek a better country, that is an heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he

hath prepared for them a city." (Heb. xi. 16.)

I need not add more to establish that a saint knowing God only as the Almighty, can be on the earth in a very remarkable way, so dependent on God, that at His call he can leave country and kindred, he can be a stranger in a strange land, he can risk his life to serve his brother, he can surrender the light of his eyes, in obedience to the will of God; he believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. He could refuse the offers of this world, because, blessed by the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth. When one reviews the history of Abraham, one is ready to say, What more could any one be? and yet, as we learn the life of the Son, we enter into far greater and deeper experiences of what God is, even the knowledge of the Father, for it is only in the life of Christ that we could apprehend the Father; and in a way, as one has said, when we see any of Christ's acts down here we can say,

the life in which they were done is our life.

Let us now turn to Moses, and those to whom God was made known as Jehovah, that is,-God in relationship through redemption, from Moses until Christ came. God appears, in grace, to Moses, Israel is redeemed out of Egypt. They were God's people, not only daily cared for by God in the wilderness, but eventually brought into the land. For, though they had broken the law, yet the Lord shewed by the nature of the offerings which they were to offer, that He desired that they should come nigh unto Him. The law came from Mount Sinai, but the offerings were prescribed by the Lord from the tabernacle. They are regarded by Jehovah as a redeemed people, and therefore they are instructed in the way they were to approach to God. Surely, when we bear in mind, and connect together, the great advance in the revelation of God to Moses, beyond that made known to Abraham, we might well conclude that there could be no

more, as is often repeated: "I am the Lord thy God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and brought you unto myself." Who can read before the Lord the history of Israel, from the day God brought them out of Egypt, and in any degree apprehend the bounties of His grace to them in every respect, and not be filled with a sense of the goodness and tenderness of the blessed God; and, in true adoration of heart, echo His own words, "What could I have done for thee that I have not done?" He could say, "He that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye." It would not be possible, in this paper, to recount, in any adequate way, the grand, the tender, loving ways of the blessed God to Israel, and the deep enjoyment many of them had in Him, though knowing Him only as Jehovah, as continual expressions in the Psalms, and elsewhere, testify.

Now, when the Son of God comes, an entirely new and distinct thing is declared. "No man hath seen God at