Memoir Select Thoughts and Sermons Author:Edward Payson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III. ALL THINGS CREATED FOR CHRIST. All things were created by him and for him.—Colossiaws I. 4. By whom were all these worlds and beings made ? ... more »is probablv the first question, which a view of the created universe would excite in a seriously inquisitive mind. For what purpose and with what view were they created 1 would no less probably be the second. There are two inspired passages, one in the Old Testament and the other in the New, which contain a direct answer to both these questions. In the Old Testament we are told, that Jehovah hath made all things for himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil: and in the New, that all things were created by Christ and for Christ. At first view these passages appear to differ. not only in language, but in sentiment. The former asserts that Jehovah made all things. The latter declares that all things were created by Christ. The former assures us that Jehovah made all things for himself; the latter that all things were created for Christ. To those however who believe that the Jehovah of the Old Testament is the Jesus of the New, these apparently different assertions will appear perfectly consistent. They will recollect and readily assent to the declaration of our Lord, He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; I and my Father are one; and will feel that the expression. Jehovah hath made all things for himself, is synonymous with the declaration in our text, All things were created by Christ and for him. In discoursing on this passage we shall endeavor to illustrate particularly the general assertion, that all things were createdfor Christ. That none may suspect us of asserting more than our text will warrant, it may be proper to quote the remaining part of the verse which contains it. i:By him," says the apostle spe...« less