Glory to our LORD JESUS Christ for ever!
"I have exalted One chosen out of the people." -Psalm 89:19 [KJV] My soul, wert thou refreshed on the past day with the precious meditation of the God of our fathers glorifying His Son Jesus? Suffer not, then, the blessed subject to pass away from thy thoughts this day, or any day, but look at the same delightful meditation proposed in the words which God spake to His Holy One in vision— "I have exalted One chosen out of the people." Yes, the Lord Jesus, as man and Mediator, was chosen in the infinite mind of Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, from everlasting. And before that God went forth in the immediate acts of creation, when that vast mass of beings the Lord determined to call into existence arose in His own infinite mind at His command, this blessed one, this glorious, this distinguished, this precious individual which was to become one with the uncreated Word, in order to constitute the Wisdom-man, Mediator, was from everlasting chosen. This was t