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difpenfations, it is called the Old and New Teftament. 2 Cor. 3. 6,7,8,9. Heb. 12. 18. to 24. Cal. 2. 11,12. 1 Cor. 5. 7,8. & 11,25. k Gal. 3 3 Eph. 4.5. Jer. 31 33 34 Rom 3. 21,22.30. & 1. 16 2 Cor 3. 6, 14.

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T pleafed God in his eternal purpose, to chufe and ordain the Lord Jefus his only begotten Son, according to a Covenant made between them both, to be the Mediator between God & Man; the Prophet, Prieft, and King, the Head and Saviour of his Church, the Heir of all things, f and Judge of the World: unto whom he did from all Eternity give a People to be his feed, and to be by him in time Redeemed, Called, Juftified, Sanctified and Glorified, Ifa. 42. I. 1 Pet. 1. 19, 20. John 3 16 1 Tim. 2. 5. Acts 3. 22. Heb 5.5.6.

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fubftance and equal with the Father, did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon him Mans nature, * with all the effential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without fin, being conceived by the power of the holy Ghoft in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her fubftance: So that two whole perfect and diftinct natures, the Godhead and the Manhood, were infeperably joined together in one perfon, without Converfion, Compofition, or Confufion; which perfon is very God and very Man, yet one Chrift, the only Mediator between God & Man. k Job. 114, 17. & Phil. 2. 6. Gal. 4. 4• A Heb. 2:14, 16 17& 4.15.

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The Lord Jefus Chrift in his humane nature, thus united to the Divine in the Perfon of the Son was fanctified and anointed with the holy fpirit above measure, having in him all the treasures of Wifdom & Knowledge, in whom it pleased the Father that all fulness fhould dwell, to the end that being holy, harmlefs, undefiled & full of grace and truth s he might be throughly furnished to execute the Office of a Mediator and Surety; th Office he took not unto himfelf, but was t

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This Office the Lord Jefus Chrift did moft willingly undertake, which that he might difcharge, he was made under the Law, and did perfectly fulfil it, and underwent the punishment due to us, which we should have born and fuffered, being made fin and a curfe for us, enduring moft grievous torments immediately from God in his Soul, and most painful fufferings in his body was crucified and died, was buried and remained under the power of death yet faw no corruption, the third day he arofe from the dead the fame body in which he fuffered, which also he afcended into Heaven, and there fitet at the right hand of his Father, g making Interceffion, and thall return to Judge Men and Angels at the end of the World. i * Pfl 42 7 8 Heb 10 5 to 10 John 10 18 Phi 2 8 Ga! 44 z Mat 3 15& 5 a Mit 26 37, 38 & 27 46 Mat 26 27 c Phil 2 8

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The Lord Jefus by his perfect obedience & Sacrifice of himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up unto God,hath fully fatisfied the Juftice of God, and purchased not only reconciliation, but an everlafting inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven, for all thefe whom the Father hath given unto him. * Rom. 5 19. Heb. 9.14.16. & 10 14.Epb.5.2. Rom. 3. 25,26. Col. 1. 19,20. Dan. 9.24,26 Epb. 1. 11, 14. John 17. 2. Heb. 9. 12, 15.

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Although the work of Redemption was not actually wrought by Chrift till after his Incarnation, yet the Virtue, Efficacy and Benefits thereof were Communicated to the Elect in all ages fucceffively from the beginning of the World, in and by thofe Promises, Types and Sacrifices, wherein he was revealed & fignified to be the Seed of the Woman, which fhould bruise the Serpents head, and the Lamb flain from the beginning of the World, being yefterday and to day the fame, and for ever. 4.4,5.Gen 3.15. Rev. 11.8. Heb. 13.8.

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Chrift in the work of Mediation a&teth ac cording to both Natures, by each nature doing that which is proper in it felf; " yet by reafon of the unity of the Perfon, that which is proper to one Nature, is fometimes in Scripture attributed to the Perfon denominated by the other Nature." Heb. 9. 14. 15. 1 Pet. 3. 18 Alts 20. 28. John 3. 13. 1 John 3. 16.

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To all thofe for whom Chrift hath purchafed Redemption, he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the fame, making Interceffion for them, and revealing unto them in and by the Word, the Myfteries of Salvation, effectually perfwading them by his Spirit to believe and obey, and governing their hearts by his Word and Spirit, overcoming all their enemies by his Almighty Power and Wisdom, in such manner and ways as are mot confonant to his wonderful and unfearchable difpenfation. ! P John 6. 37, 39. & 10. 15, 16. ¶ 1 John 2.1. Rom 8.34. Joba 25. 13, 15. Eph. x 7.8.9. John 17 6. Johr 14.16. Hab. 12.22 2Cor. 4. 13. Rom. 8. 9, 14. & 15 18,19. John 17.17. Pfa. 110. 1. 1 Cor. 15. 25, 26. Pfal. 4. 2, 3. Col. 2. 15.

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