of Egypt, so that they might understand that he was a true messenger of God, and that the religion which he taught was a divine revelation. It is remarkable, in the case of Moses, that he received no general or indiscriminate power of working miracles, but that, on each occasion, he was specially empowered and directed to act, and that without such a special commission from God it would appear he neither did, nor could, work. any miracle. For examples of these special directions, see Exod. iv. 2-9; viii. 5, 16, 20-1; ix. 3, 8, 9, 22; x. 12, 21; xiv. 16, 26; xviii. 6.

In consequence of these miracles which Moses did in the name of the Lord, the people believed in him, as we read in Exod. iv. 31; xiv. 31; and it was on the same account, and because the Lord knew him face to face, that we read in Deut. xxxiv. 10-12, that among all the prophets in Israel he had no equal in rank. Now if the Israelites believed in Moses on account of the miracles he did, how much more cause had they for believing in Jesus Christ, whose ministry could thus be described by Himself. 'The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them.' (see Matt. xi. 5); and of whom it is said in Mark iii. 10-11, 'for he had healed many; insomuch that as many as had plagues pressed upon him that they might touch him. And the unclean spirits,

whensoever they beheld him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God!' Not many days before His own death He called Lazarus out of the grave, though he had been dead four days, by which time, according to the natural course of things in that climate, decomposition would have already begun (see John xi. 39). Surely we cannot. wonder that St. Peter, in addressing the Jews on one occasion, described Him to them as 'a man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know' (see Acts ii. 22); and it is not too much to say, that neither before nor since has there ever lived a man whose actions. bore the same impress of boundless beneficence and supernatural power. Therefore He might well challenge the Jews in those wonderfully gentle and condescending words recorded in John x. 37-8: 'If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

V

THE DIVINE REVELATION BY CHRIST AND THE GOSPEL PRESENTS A REAL ADVANCE BEYOND THAT OF THE JEWISH DISPENSATION

THIS subject admits of almost an unlimited illustration; but, for the present, we shall restrict our