I die and rot beneath the clods, Yet live and reign as long as God t. SECT. ΧΙ. The mystery of CHRIST, his names, natures, and offices. M Y Lord, appears; awake, my foul, An infinite and finite mind b, Eternity and time conjoin'd 6. The everlasting Father styl'd, Yet lately born, the virgin's child d. thy fervant: for I do not forget thy commandments. Heb. x. 39. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe, to the laving of the foul. Pfal. xc. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction; and fayest, Return, ye children of men. t John v. 24. Verily verily I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that fent me, hath everlafting life, and shall not come unto condemnation: but is paffed from death unto life. Rev. iii. 21. To him that overcom. eth will I grant to fit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am fet down with my father in his throne. And xxii. 5. And there shall be no night there, and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever. a Ifa. ix. 6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is given, and the goverment shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful. 6 Pfal. cxlvii. 5. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. Luke ii. 52. And Jesus increaf" ed in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. • Gal. iv. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God fent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law. d la. ix. 6. For unto us a child is born-: and his name shall be called The everlasting Father. Matth. i. 23. Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, Nor father he, nor mother had, His titles differ and accord, As David's fon, and David's Lord f. and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, is, God with us. • Heb. vii. 3. For this Melchifedec-without father, without mother, without defcent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. Luke ii. 48, 49. And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou so dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have fought thee forrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that ye fought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? f Matth. xxii. 41, -45. While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. He faith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his fon, &c. g Matth. xxi. 5. Tell ye the daughters of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and fitting upon an afs, and a colt the foal of an ass. v. 8, 9. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. And the multitude that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest. v. 12. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that fold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the feats of them that fold doves. Col. ii. 15. And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a thew of them openly, triumphing over them in at [his cross]. Rom. iv. 25. Jesus our Lord was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. My nature is corruption doom'd b: • Yet he affum'd my fin and guilt 1, 1 Eph. iv. 8. Wherefore he (David] faith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. Rom. i. 4. Jesus Christ our Lord was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holinefs, by the refurrection from the dead. : 6 Eph. iv. 22. Put off concerning the former conversation, the old man which is corrupt, according to the deceitful lufts. i Pfal. cx. 7. He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head. A Rom. viii. 3. God fent his own Son, in the likeness of finful flesh, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh. John i. 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. Luke i. 35. And the angel anfwered and faid unto Mary, The Holy Ghost shall come u pon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the fon of God. Heb. ii. 16. For verily, he took not on him the nature of angels: but he took on him the feed of Abraham. And vii. 25, 27. For fuch an High Priest be. came us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from finners, and made higher than the heavens; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up facrifice, first for his own fins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. / Ifa iii. 5, 6. All we like sheep have gone astray: we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 2 Cor. v. 2. God hath made Christ to be fin for us, who knew no fin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Matth. xx. 28. The Son of man came to give his life a ranfom for many. m Rom, iii. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to be a propi. The Chief of chiefs amazing came n, 1 Crown'd Chief with thorns of sharp annoy q. Lo, in his white and ruddy face With equal speed and splendour run f. tiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remiffion of fins that are past, through the forbearance of God. Acts xx. 28. Feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. Pet. i. 18, 19. For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as filver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without fpot. 1 John iii. 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us. n Rev. i. 4, 5. Grace be unto you, and peace from-Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. • Zech. vi. 2, 13. Behold, the man whose name is the BRANCH-he shall build the temple of the Lord, and he shall bear the glory. Heb. xii. 2. Jesus, for the joy that was fet before him, endured the cross, defpising the shame, &c. p Pfal. xlv. 7. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. q Matth. xxvii. 29. And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, faying, Hail king of the Jews. Song ii. 1. I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. And v. 10. My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. Rev. xxii. 16. I [Jesus) am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. Mal. iv. 2. But unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of righteousness a. rife with healing in his wings: and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall. How glorious is the church's head, With equal brightness in his face, s Col. i. 18. And Christ is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence. John iii. 16. God fo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. Gen. iii. 15. And I (the Lord God] 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. t Ifa. liii. 8. He was taken from prison and from judg. ment: and who shall declare his generation? Prov. xxx. 4. Who hath afcended up into heaven, or defcended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his Son's name, if thou.canst tell? u Rev. i. tt. I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last. 1 Cor. xv. 45. The last Adam was made a quickening spirit. v. 47. The second man is the Lord from heaven. v 2 Cor. iv. 6. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ. Rom. iii. 24, 25, 26. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ: whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of fins that are past, through the forebearance of God, to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the juftifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Eph. i. 6, 7. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved: in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of fins according to the riches of his grace. |