ry God, and very Man, yet one Chrift the only Mediator, between God and Man °. III. The Lord Jefus, in his human Nature thus united to the divine, was fan&tified and anointed with the Holy Spirit above Measure P; having in him all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge; in whom it pleased the Father that all Fulness fhould dwell To the end, that being holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of Grace and Truth', he might be thoroughly furnifhed to execute the Office of a Mediator and Surety: Which Office he took not unto himself, but was thereunto called by his Father, who put all Power and Judgment into his Hand, made higher than the John I. 14. And the made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only be gotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. • Rom. 1. 3. Concerning his ners, and Son Jefus Chrift our Lord, which heavens. was made of the feed of David, Word was according to the flesh, v. 4. And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the fpirit of holinefs, by the refurrection from the dead. 1 Tim. 2. 5. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Chrift Jefus. III. P Pfalm 45. 7. Thou loveft righteoufnefs, and hateft wickednefs: therefore God, thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladnefs above thy fellows. John 3.34. For he whom God hath fent, fpeaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. 2 Coloff. 2. 3. In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Coloff. 1. 19. For it pleafed the Father, that in him fhould all fulness dwell, Heb. 7. 26. For fuch an high prieft became us, who is holy, harm lefs, undefiled, fseparate from sin Acts 10. 38. How God anointed Jefus of Nazareth, with the holy Ghoft, and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppreffed of the devil: for God was with him. Heb. 12. 24. And to Jefus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that fpeaketh better things than that of Abel. Hebrews 7. 22. By fo much was Jefus made a furety of a better teftament. Hebrews 5.4. And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. v. 5. So alfo Chrift glo rified 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 Hand, and fame ". gave him Commandment to execute the IV. This Office, the Lord Jefus did most willingly undertake; which that he might difcharge, he was made under the Law, and did perfectly fulfil it; endured moft grievous Torments immediately in his Soul, and most painful Sufferings W in Johns. 22. For the Father establish the fecond. v. 10. By the judgeth no man; but hath commit- which will we are fanctified,through ted all judgment unto the Son: the offering of the body of Jefus 27. And hath given him autho- Chrift once for all. John 10. 18. nity to execute judgment alfo, be- No man taketh it from me, but I caufe he is the Son of man. Mat. lay it down of my felf: I have 28.18. And Jefus came, and spake power to lay it down, and I have unto them, faying, All power is power to take it again. This comgiven unto me, in heaven and in mandment have I received of my earth. As 2.36. Therefore let all Father. Philippians 2. 8. And being the houfe of Ifrael know affuredly, found in fashion as a man, he humthat God hath made that fame Je- bled himself, and became obedient fus whom ye have crucified, both unto death, even the death of the Lord and Chrift. IV. Pfal. 40. 7. Then said I,Lo, Icome: in the volume of the book written of me. v. 8. I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. With Hebrews 10. 5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he faith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldeft not, but a body haft thou prepared me: v. 6. In burnt-offerings and facrifices for fin, thou haft had no pleafure: v.7. Then faid I, Lo, I (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. v. 8. Above, when he said, Sacrifice, and offering, and burntofferings, and offering for fin, thou wouldeft not, neither hadft pleasure therein, (which are offered by the law;) v. 9. Then faid he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the firft, that he may come crofs. Y Gal. 4. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God fent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. z Matthew 3.15. And Jefus anfwering, faid unto him, Suffer it to be fo now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he fuffered him. Matthew 5. 17. Think not that I am come to deftroy the law, or the prophets : I am not come to deftroy, but to fulfil. a Matthew 26. 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 forrowful,even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. Luke 22. 44. And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his fweat was as it were great drops of in his Body; was crucified and died; was bu ried and remained under the Power of Death: Yet faw no Corruption. On the third Day he arof from the Dead, with the fame Body in which he fuffered f; with which also he afcended into Hea ven, and there fitteth at the right Hand of his Fa ther 8, making Interceffion; and fhall return to judge Men and Angels at the End of the World! of blood falling down to the ground. Matthew 27. 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 Matthew 26. and 27. Chapters. Philip. 2.8. [See the laft fcripture in immediately foregoing. ] V. The f John 20.25. The other difciples therefore faid unto him, We have feen the Lord. But he faid unto them, Except Ifhall fee in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his fide, I will not believe. faith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my fide: and be not faithless, but believing. v. 27. Then Mark 16.19. So then, after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and fat on the right hand of God. Acts 2. 23. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God,ye have taken, and by wicked hands, have crucified and flain. 7.24. Whom God hath raised up, having loofed the pains of death: because it was not poffible that he fhould be hol- Romans 8.34. Who is he that den of it. v. 27. Becaufe thou wilt condemneth? It is Chrift that died, not leave my foul in hell, neither yea rather that is rifen again, who wilt thou fuffer thine holy one to is even at the right hand of God, fee corruption. And Acts 13. 37. who alfo maketh interceffion for But he whom God raised again, faw us. Hebrews 9. 24. For Chrift is no corruption. Rom. 6. 9. Know- not entered into the holy places ing that Chrift being raised from made with hands, which are the f the dead, dieth no more; death gures of the true; but into heaven hath no more dominion over him. it felf,now to appear in the prefence of God for us. Heb. 7.25. Where fore 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. e I Cor. 15. 3. For I delivered unto you 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 fcen of Cephas, then of the twelve. * i Romans 14. 9. For to this end Chrift both died, and rofe, and re vived, that he might be Lord both of V. The Lord Jefus by his perfect Obedience and Sacrifice of himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up unto God, hath fully fatisfied the Juftice of his Father; and purchased not only Reconciliation, but an everlasting Inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven, for all those whom the Father hath given unto him. VI. Al were V. Rom. 5. 19. For as by one mans difobedience many made finners: fo by the obedience of one, fhall many be made righteous. V. 16. of the dead and living. v. 10. But why doft thou judge thy brother? or why doft thou fet at naught thy brother: for we fhall all ftand before the judgment-feat of Chrift. Heb. 9. 14. How much more At 1. 11. Which also faid, Ye fhall the blood of Chrift, who men of Galilee, why ftand ye ga- through the eternal Spirit, offered zing up into heaven? this fame Je- himself without fpot to God, purge fus which is taken up from you in your confcience from dead works to heaven, fhall fo come, in like to ferve the living God? manner as ye have feen him go in- For where a teftament is, there must to heaven. Als 10. 42. And he alfo of neceffity be the death of commanded us to preach unto the the teftator. Heb. 10. 14. For by people, and to teftify that it is he, one offering he hath perfected for which was ordained of God, to be ever them that are fanctified. Eph. the judge of quick and dead. Mat. 5. 2. And walk in love, as Chrift 13.40. As therefore the tares are alfo hath loved us, and hath gigathered and burnt in the fire; fo ven himself for us, an offering fhall it be in the end of this world, and a facrifice to God for a sweet 41. The Son of man fhall fend fmelling favour. Rom. 3.25. Whom forth his angels, and they fhall ga- God hath fet forth to be a propitiather out of his kingdom all things tion through faith in his blood, to that offend; and them which do declare his righteoufnefs for the reiniquity; v. 42. And shall caft them miffion of fins that are paft,through into a furnace of fire: there fhall the forbearance of God; v. 26. be wailing and gnashing of teeth. To declare, I fay, at this time his Jude 6. And the angels which kept righteoufnefs: that he might be not their firft eftate, but left their juft, and the juftifier of him which own habitation, he hath referved believeth in Jefus. in everlasting chains under darknefs, unto the judgment of the great day: 2 Peter 2.4. For if God spared not the angels that finned, but caft them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be referved unto judgment. 1 Daniel 9. 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 righteousness, and to VI. Although the Work of Redemption was no actually wrought by Chrift till after his Incarnation yet the Vertue, Efficacy, and Benefits thereof wer communicated unto the Elect in all Ages fucceffive ly from the Beginning of the World; in and by thof Promises, Types and Sacrifices, wherein he was re vealed and fignified to be the Seed of the Woman which fhould bruife the Serpent's Head; and the Lamb flain from the Beginning of the World, being Yesterday, and to Day the fame, and for ever m VII. Christ, in the Work of Mediation, acteth according to both Natures; by each Nature doing v. 15. of goats and calves, but by his that to feal up the vifion and prophecy, Heb. 9.12. Neither by the blood and to anoint the moft holy. v. 26. And after threefcore and two weeks fhall Meffiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that fhall come, fhall deftroy the city and the fanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war defolations are determined. Col. 1. 19. For it pleafed the Father, that in him fhould all fulness dwell; v. 20. And (having made peace VI. Galat. 4. 4. But when the through the blood of his crofs) by fulness of the time was come, God him to reconcile all things unto fent forth his Son made of a wohimself; by him, I fay, whether man, made under the law, v. 5. they be things in earth, or things in To redeem them that were under heaven. Eph. 1. 11. In whom the law, that we might receive the alfo we have obtained an inheri- adoption of fons. Gen. 3. 15. And tance, being predeftinated accor- I will put enmity between thee and ding 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, untill the redemption of the purchafed poffeffion, unto the praise of his glory. John 17. 2. As thou haft given him power over all flesh, that he fhould give eternal life to as many as thou haft given him. the woman, and between thy feed and her feed: it fhall bruife thy head and thou shalt bruife his heel. Re 13. 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 ofthe world. Heb. 13. 8. Jefus Chrift the fame yesterday, and to day, and forever. VII. He |