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the Godhead and the manhood, were infeparably joined together in one perfon, without converfion, compofition or confufion n. Which perfon is very God, and very man, yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and man o.

III. The Lord Jefus, in his human nature thus united to the divine, was fanctified and anointed with the holy Spirit above measure p; having in him all the treafures of wifdom and knowledge q; in whom it pleafed the Father that all fulness fhould dwell: to the end, that being holy, harmlefs, undefiled, and full of grace and truth f, he might be thorowly furnished to execute the office of a Mediator and furety t. Which office he

of the houfe of David; and the virgins name was Mary. v. 31. And behold, thou fhalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a Son, and fhalt call his name Jefus. v. 35. And the angel anfwered, and faid unto her, The holy Ghoft fhall come upon thee, and the power of the Higheft fhall overfhadow thee; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee, fhall be called the Son of God. Gal. iv. 4. (See letter k immediately foregoing.)

n Luke i. 35. (See the foregoing Verfe.) Col. ii. 9. For in him dwelJeth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Rom. ix. 5. Whofe are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh, Chrift came, who is over all, God bleffed for ever. Amen. I Pet. iii. 18. For Christ also hath once fuffered for fins, the juft for the unjuft (that he might bring us to God) being put to death in the flesh, but quickned by the Spirit. Tim. iii. 16. And without controverfy, great is the mystery of godlinefs: God was manifeft in the flesh, juftified in the Spirit, feen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

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took not unto himself, but was thereunto called by his Father v, who put all power and judgment unto his hand, and commandment to execute the fame w.

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IV. This office the Lord Jefus did moft willingly undertake x; which that he might difcharge, he was made under the law y, and did perfectly fulfil it z; endured most grievous torments immediately in his foul a, and moft painful fufferings in

Ghost, and with power; who went a'bout doing good, and healing all that were oppreffed of the devil: for God was with him. Heb. xii. 24. And to Jefus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of fprinkling, that fpeaketh better things than that of Abel. Heb. vii. 22. By fo much was Jefus made a furety of a better teftament.

Heb. v. 4. And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. v. 5. So alfo Chrift glorified not himself, to be made an high priest: but he that faid unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.

w John v. 22. For the Father judgeth no man; but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: v. 27. And hath given him authority to execute judgment alfo, because he is the Son of man. Mat. xxviii. 18. And Jefus came, and fpake unto them, faying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Acts ii. 36. Therefore let all the houfe of Ifrael know affuredly, that God hath made that fame Jefus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

IV. x Pfal. xl. 7. Then faid I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me. v. 8. I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. With Heb. x. 5. Wherefore when he cometh unto the world, he faith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body haft thou prepared me: v.6. In burnt offerings and facrifices for fin, thou haft had no

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pleasure: v. 7. Then faid I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. v. 8. Above, when he faid, Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and offering for fin, thou wouldst not, neither hadft pleasure therein, (which are. offered by the law;) v. 9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God, he taketh away the firft, that he may establish the fecond. v. 10. By the which will we are fanctified, thro' the offering of the body of Jefus Chrift once for all. John x. 18. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my felf: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again, This commandment have I received of my Father. Phil. ii. 8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himfelf, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

y Gal. iv. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God fent forth his fon made of a woman, made under the law.

z Mat. iii. 15. And Jefus anfwering, faid unto him, Suffer it to be fo now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteoufnefs. Then he fuffered him. Mat. v. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to deftroy, but to fulfil.

a Mat. xxvi. 37. And he took with him Peter, and the two fons of Zebedee, and began to be forrowful, and very heavy. v. 38. Then faith he unto them, My foul is exceeding forrow

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his body b; was crucified, and died c; was buried, and remained under the power of death: yet faw no corruption d. On the third day he rose from the dead e, with the fame body in which he fuffered f; with which alfo he afcended into heaven, and there fitteth at the right-hand of his Father g, making interceffion b; and shall return to judge men and angels, at the end of the world i.

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ful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. Luke xxii. 44. And being in an agony, he prayed more earneftly and his fweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Mat. xxvii. 46. And about the ninth hour, Jefus cried with a loud voice, faying, Eli, Eli, lama-fabachthani? that is to fay, My God, my God, why haft thou forfaken me?

b Matt. xxvi, and xxvii. chapters. c Phil. ii. 8. (See the laft fcripture in x immediately foregoing.)

d Acts ii. 23. Him being delivered by the determinate counfel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands, have crucified and flain. v. 24. Whom God hath raifed up, having loofed the pains of death, because it was not poffible that he should be holden of it. v. 27. Because thou wilt not leave my foul in hell, neither wilt thou fuffer thine holy One to fec corruption. And Acts xiii. 37. But he whom God raised again, faw no corruption. Rom. vi. 9. Knowing that Christ being raifed from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

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e I Cor. xv. 3. For I delivered unyou first of all, that which I alfo received, how that Chrift died for our fins according to the fcriptures: v. 4. And that he was buried, and that he rofe again the third day according to the fcriptures: * v. 5. And that he was feen of Cephas, then of the twelve. f John xx. 25. The other difciples therefore faid unto him, We have feen the Lord. But he faid unto them, Ex

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cept I fhall fee in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thruft my hand into his fide, I will not believe. v. 27. Then faith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thruft it into my fide: and be not faithlefs, but believing..

g Mark xvi. 19. So then, after the' Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and fat on the right-hand of God.

h Romans viii. 34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Chrift that died, yea rather that is rifen again, who is even at the right-hand of God, who alfo maketh interceffion for us. Heb. ix. 24. For Chrift is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itfelf, now to appear in the prefence of God for us. Heb. vii. 25. Wherefore he is able alfo to fave them to the uttermoft, that come unto God by him, feeing he ever liveth to make interceffion for them.

i Romans xiv. 9. For to this end Chrift both died, and rofe," and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. v. 10. But why doli thou judge thy brother? or why doft thou fet at nought thy brother? for we fhall all stand before the judgment feat of Chrift. Acts i. 11. Which alfo faid, Ye men of Galilee, why ftand ye gazing up into heaven? this fame Jefus which is taken up from you into heaven, fhall fo come in like manner

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V. The Lord Jefus, by his perfect obedience and facrifice of himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up unto God, hath fully fatisfied the juftice of his Father k; and purchafed not only reconciliation, but an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all thofe whom the Father hath given unto him /.

as ye have feen him go into heaven. Acts x. 42. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to teftify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead. Mat. xiii. 40. As therefore the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire; fo fhall it be in the end of this world. v. 41. The Son of man fhall fend forth his angels, and they fhall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; v. 42. And fhall caft them into a furnace of fire: there fhall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Jude 6. And the angels which kept not their firft eftate, but left their own habitation, he hath referved in everlafting chains under darknefs, unto the judgment of the great day. 2 Pet. ii. 4. For if God fpared not the angels that finned, but caft them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be referved unto judgment V. k Rom. v. 19. For as by one mans difobedience many were made finners: fo by the obedience of one, fhall many be made righteous. Heb. ix. 14. How much more fhall the blood of Carift, who through the eternal Spirit offered himfelf without fpot to God, purge your confcience from dead works to ferve the living God? v. 16. For where a teftament is, there muft alfo of neceffity be the death of the teftator. Heb. x. 14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are fanctified. Eph. v. 2. And walk in love, as Chrift alfo hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a facrifice to God for a fweet

VI. Alfmelling favour. Rom. iii. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiati on through faith in his blood, to de clare his righteoufnefs for the remif fion of fins that are paft, thro' the forbearance of God; v. 26. To declare, I fay, at this time his righteoufnefs: that he might be juft, and the juftifier of him which believeth in Jefus.

/ Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the tranfgreffion, and to make an end of fins; and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteoufnefs, and to feal up the vifion and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. v. 26. And after threefcore and two weeks fhall Meffiah be cut off, but not for himfelf; and the people of the prince that shall come, fhall deftroy the city and the fanctuary, and the end thereof fhall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war defolations are determined. Col. i. 19. For it pleafed the Father, that in him fhould all fulnefs dwell; v. 20. And (having made peace through the blood of his crofs) by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I fay, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. Eph. i. 11. In whom alfo we have obtained an inheritance, being predeftinated according to the purpofe of him who worketh all things after the counfel of his own will. v. 14. Which is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchafed poffeffion, unto the praife of his glory. John' xvii. 2. As thou haft given him power

VI. Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by Chrift till after his incarnation, yet the vertue, efficacy and benefits thereof were .communicated unto the elect in all ages, fucceffively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promifes, types and facrifices, wherein he was revealed and fignified to be the feed of the woman which fhould bruife the ferpent's head, and the Lamb flain from the beginning of the world, being yesterday, and to day, the fame and for ever m. VII. Chrift, in the work of mediation, acteth according to both natures; by each nature doing that which is proper to itfelf n: yet, by reafon of the unity of the perfon, that which is proper to one nature, is fometimes in fcripture attributed to the perfon denominated by the other nature o.

VIII. To all thofe for whom Chrift hath purchafed redemption, he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the fame p; making interceffion for

over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou haft given him. Heb ix. 12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. v. 15. And for this caufe he is the mediator of the new teilament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the tranfgreffions that were under the firft teftament, they which are called might receive the promife of eternal inheritance.

VI. m Gal. iv. 4. But when the fulnefs of the time was come, God fent forth his fon made of a woman, made under the law, v. 5. To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of fons. Gen. iii. 15. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy feed and her feed: it fhall bruife thy head, and thou shalt bruife his heel.

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xiii. 8. And all that dwell upon the earth fhall worship him, whofe names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb flain from the foundation of the world. Heb. xiii. 8. Jefus Chrift

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the fame yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

VII. Heb. ix. 14. (See letter k fcripture the fecond.) 1 Pet. iii. 18. For Chrift alfo hath once fuffered for fins, the juft for the unjuft, (that he might bring us to God) being put to death in the flesh, but quickned by the Spirit.

o Acts xx. 28. Take heed therefore unto your felves, and to all the flock, over the which the holy Ghoft hath made you overfeers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. John iii. 13. And no man hath afcended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man, which is in heaven. I John iii. 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

VIII. John vi. 37. All that the Father giveth me, fhall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will in no wife caft out. v. 39. And this is the Father's will which hath fent me,

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