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spirit above measure, having in him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, q in whom it pleased the father that all fulness should dwell, rto the end that being holy, harmless, undefiled and full of grace and truth, s he might be thoroughly furnished to execute the office of a mediator and surety; which office he took not unto himself, but was thereunto cailed by his father, u who also put all power and judgment into his hand, and gave him commandment to execute the same. w

Psal. xiv.. 1. John iii. 34. 9 Col. ii. 3. T Col. i. 19. s Heb. vii. 26. John i. 14. t Acts X. 38. Heb. xii. 24, and vii. 22. u Heb. v. 4,

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The office the Lord Jesus Christ did most willingly undertake, z which, that he might discharge he was made under the law, and did perfectly fulfil it, z and underwent the punishment due to us, which we should have born and suffered, being made sin and a curse for us, enduring most grievous torments immediately from God in his soul, a and most painful sufferings in his body, b was crucified and died, c was buried and remained under the power of death yet saw no corruption, d on the third day he arose from the dead e with the same body in which he suffered, with which also he ascended into Heaven, and there sitteth at the right

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band of his father, g making intercession, h and shall return to judge men and angels at the end of the world. i

x Psal. xl. 7, 8. Heb. x. 5 to 10. John, x. 18. Phil. ii. 8. y Gal. iv. 4. z Mat. ii. 15 and v. a Mat. xxvi. 37, 38, and xxvii. 46. Luke xxii, 44. 6 Mat. xxvi. 27. c Phil. ii, 8. d

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Acts, ii, 23, 24,

27, and xiii, 37. Rom. vi. 9.

e I Cor. xv. 3, 4. ƒ John, xx. 25, 27. g Mark, xvi. 9. h Rom. viii, 34. Heb. ix, 24, and vii. 25. i Rom. xiv, 9, 10. Acts, i, 11, and x, 42. Mat. xiii, 40, 41, 42. Jude, 6. II Pet. ii. 4.

V.

The Lord Jesus, by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, which he, through the eternal Spirit once offered up unto God, hath fully satisfied the justice of God, k and purchased not only reconciliation, but an everlasting inher itance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father hath given unto him. /

k Rom. v, 19. Heb. ix, 14, 16, and x, 14, Eph. v, 2. Rom. iii, 25, 26.

Dan. ix. 24, 26. Eph. i, 11, 14.
Heb. ix, 12, 15.

VI.

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Col. i, 19, 20. John, xvii, 2.

Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy and benefits thereof were communicated to the elect in all ages successively, from the beginning of the

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world, in and by those promises, types, and sac rifices, wherein he was revealed, and signified to be the seed of the woman, which should bru.s the serpent's head, and the lamb slain from the beginning of the world, being yesterday and to day the same, and forever, m

m Gal. iv, 4, 5. Gen. iii, 15. Rev. xi, 8. Heb xiii, 8.

VII.

Christ in the work of mediation acteth accor ding to both natures, by each nature doing that which is proper in itself; n yet by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature, is sometimes in scripture attributed to the person denominated by the other nature. o n Heb. ix. 14, 15. I Pęt. iii, 18. o Acts, xx, 28. John, iii, 13. I John, iii, 16.

VIII.

To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption, he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same, making intercession for them, g and revealing unto them, in and by the word, the mysteries of salvation, r effectually persuading them by his Spirit to believe and obey, and governing their hearts by his word and Spirit, s overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom, in such manner and ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensa

John, vi, 37, 39, ii, 1. Rom. viii, 34. 7, 8, 9. John, xvii, 6.*

g I John,

and x, 15, 16.
r John, xv, 13, 15. Eph. i,

s John, xiv, 16. Heb. xii,

22. II Cor. iv, 13. Rom. viii, 9, 14, and xv. 18,

19. John, xvii, 17.

Psal. cx, 1. I Cor. xv, 25,

26. Psal. iv. 2, 3. Col. ii, 15.

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CHAP, IX.

Of Free Will.

OD hath endued the will of man with that

J natural liberty and power of acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to do good or evil. a

a Mat. xvii. 12. Jam. i. 14. Deut. xxx. 19.

II.

Man in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God; 6 but yet mutably. so that he might fall from it. c

b Gen. i. 26. Eccl. vii. 29. Gen. iii. 6. c Gen. ii. 16, 17.

III.

Man by his fall into a state of sin, hath whol

ly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation, d so as a natural man being altogether averse from that good, e and dead in sin. f is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. g

d Rom. v. 6. John xv. 5. 12. f Eph. ii. 1. 5. Col ii. 13. 65. Eph. ii. 2, 3, 4, 5. I Cor. ii.

4, 5.

IV.

e

Rom. iii. 10, g John vi. 44, 14. Tit. ii. 3,

"When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth hìm from his natural bondage under sin h and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; i yet so as that by reson of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly nor only will that which is good but doth so will that which is evil. k h Col. i. 13. Phil. ii, 13. i Rom. vi, 18 23. k Gal. v, 17. Rom. vii, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23.

V.

The will of man is made perfectly and im. mutably free to good alone in the state of glory only. /

23.

7 I John iit, 2. Jude 24. Eph; iv, 13. Heb. xii,

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