ALL the evangelists exhibit unto us the Saviour, but every one of them in his particular method. Mark describes not all the genealogy of Jesus, but begins his history at His baptism. Matthew searcheth out His original from Abraham. Luke follows it backward as far as Adam. John passeth further upwards even to the eternal generation of this Word that was made flesh. So they lead us to Jesus, mounting up four several steps. In the one we see Him only among the men of His own time; in the second He is seen in the tent of Abraham; in the third He is yet higher, to wit, in Adam; and finally having traversed all ages through so many generations, we come to contemplate Him in the beginning in the bosom of the Father: in that eternity in which He was with God before all worlds. And there let us begin, still looking unto Jesus as He carries on the great work of our salvation from first to last, from everlasting to everlasting.—Isaac Ambrose.