his hand, and gave him commandment to execute the samew. IV. This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertakex; which that he might discharge, he was made under the lawy, and did perfectly fulfil itz; endured most grievous torments immediately in his foula, and most painful fufferings priest: but he that faid unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. 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 also, because he is the Son of man. Mat xxviii. 18. And Jesus came, and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Acts ii. 36. Therefore let all the houfe of Ifrael know assuredly, that God hath made that fame Jesus, 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 into the world, he faith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me: v. 6. in burnt offerings and facrifices for fin, thou hast had no pleafure: v. 7. Then said 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 said, Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and offering for fin, thou wouldst not, neither hadst 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 first, that he may establish the second. v. 10. By the which will we are sanctified, thro' the offering of the body of Jesus Christ 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 himself, 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 Jesus answering, faid unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. 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 destroy, 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 forrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. Luke xxii. 44. And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Mat. xxvii. 46. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, faying, Eli, Eli, lama-fabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Mat. ings in his body b; was crucified, and diedc; was buried, and remained under the power of death: yet saw no corruption d. On the third day he rose from the deade, with the same body in which he suffered f; with which also he afcended into heaven, and there sitteth at the right-hand of his Fatherg, making intercession h; and shall return to judge men and angels, at the end of the worldi. b Mat. xxvi, and xxvii. chapters. Phil. ii. 8. (See the last scripture in x immediately foregoing.) d Acts ii. 23. Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands, have crucified and flain. v. 24. Whom God hath raised up, having loofed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. v. 27. Because thou wilt not leave my foul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to fee 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. e 1 Cor. xv. 3. For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our fins according to the scriptures: v. 4. And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: * v. 5. And that he was feen of Cephas, then of the twelve. f John xx. 25. The other difiples therefore said unto him, We have feen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall 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. v. 27. Then faith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy V. The finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my fide: and be not faithless, 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. b Rom. viii. 34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather that is rifen again, who is even at the right-hand of God, who also maketh interceffion for us. Heb. ix. 24. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the prefence of God for us. Heb. vii. 25. Wherefore he is able also to fave them to the uttermost, that come unto God by him, feeing he ever liveth to make interceffion for them. i Romans xiv. 9. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. v. 10. But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou fet at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-feat of Chrift. Actsi. 11. Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Acts x. 42. And he commanded us to preach 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 fatisfied the justice of his Fatherk; and purchased not only reconciliation, but an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father hath given unto himl. 1 preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead. Matt. xiii. 40. As therefore the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. v. 41. The Son of man shall fend forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; v. 42. and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Jude 6. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath referved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. 2 Pet. ii. 4. For if God (pared not the angels that finned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved, unto judgment. V. Rom. v. 19. For as by one mans disobedience many were made finners: fo by the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous. Heb. ix. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself with out fpot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? v. 16. For where a testament is, there must alfo of neceffity be the death of the testator. Heb. x. 14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are fanctified. Eph. v. 2. And walk VI. AI in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a facrifice to God for a fweet smelling favour. Rom.iii. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remiffion of fins that are past, through the forbearance of God; v. 26. to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jefus. I 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 everlafting righteousness, and to feal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. v. 26. And after threescore and two weeks shall Meffiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come, shall destroy 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. i. 19. For it pleased the Father, that in him should all fulness dwell; v. 20. and (having made peace through the blood of his cross) by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. Eph. i. 11. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according VI. Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy and benefits thereof were communicated unto the elect in all ages, successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promises, types, and sacrifices, wherein he was revealed and signified to be the feed of the woman which should bruise the ferpent's head, and the Lamb flain from the beginning of the world, being yesterday, and to day, the same and for ever m. VII. Christ, in the work of mediation, acteth according to both natures; by each nature doing that which is proper to itselfn: yet, by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature, is sometimes in fcripture attributed to the perfon denominated by the other natureo. cording to the purpose 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 purchased poffeffion, unto the praise of his glory. John xvii. 2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast 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 testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the tranfgreffions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promife of eternal inheritance. VI. m Gal. iv. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son 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 VIII. To I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy feed. and her feed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Rev. xiii. 8. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb flain from the foundation of the world. Heb. xiii. 8. Jesus Chrift the fame yesterday, and to day, and for ever. VII. » Heb. ix. 14. (See letter & scripture the second.) 1 Pet. iii. 18. For Christ also hath once fuffered for fins, the just for the unjuft, (that he might bring us to God) being put to death in the flesh, but quickned by the Spirit. • Acts xx. 28. Take heed therefore unto your selves, and to all the flock, over the which the holy Ghoft hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchafed 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. Here VIII. To all those for whom Christ hath purchased re demption, he doth certainly and effectually apply and com municate the samep; making intercession for themq, and re vealing unto them, in and by the word, the mysteries of falvationr; effectually perfuading 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; 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. p John vi. 37. All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will in no wife cast out. v. 39. And this is the Father's will which hath fent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again, at the last day. John x. 15. As the Father knoweth me, even fo know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. v. 16. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 9 1 John ii. 1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye fin not. And if any man fin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:v.2.and he is the propitiation for our fins: and not for ours only, but also for the fins of the whole world. Rom. vi. 34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who alfo maketh interceffion for us. John xv. 13. Greater love hath to man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. v. 15. Henceforth I call you not fervants; for the fervant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you. Eph. i. 7. In whom we have redemption thro his blood, the forgiveness of fins, ac cording to the riches of his grace; v.8. wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence v. 9. Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself. John xvii. 6. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. John xiv. 16. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever. Heb. xii. 2. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 2 Cor. iv. 13. We having the same spirit of faith; according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken: we also believe, and therefore speak. Rom. viii. 9. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be, that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. v. 14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they |