None Like Christ

    There never was any like him for singular worth and excellency. He was a "standardbearer" among ten thousand. A "man;" and the " Son of man." Not a mere man; but the "Lord of glory," 1 Cor. ii. 8. If they had "known" him, they would not have done as they did.

    There is none like him for spotless innocence. He did "no evil, neither was guile found in his mouth." Yet that would not excuse him. He was a Lamb; nay, the "Lamb of God," the "Holy One and the Just." Yet they denied him, and preferred a murderer—Barabbas— before him.

    There is none like him for service and usefulness. He went up and down " doing good." It was the business of his life. "Many good works have I showed you from my Father "— curing the sick, raising the dead; "for which of those works do ye stone me?" For which did they crucify him?

    Now the more like any persons are to our Lord Jesus in these things, the greater is the wickedness to devise mischievous devices against them. The more excellent, the more useful. Yet against such evil is devised—against " the quiet in the land."