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in his body b; was crucified, and died c; was buried, and remained under the power of death: yet faw no corruption d. On the third day he rofe from the dead e, with the fame body in which he fuffered f; with which also he afcended into heaven, and there sitteth at the right-hand of his Father g, making interceffion h; and shall return to judge men and Angels, at the end of the world i.

bout the ninth hour Jefus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama fabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why haft thou forsaken me?

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 railed up, having loofed the pains of death, because it was not poffible 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, saw no corruption. Rom. xi. 3. Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more: death hath no more dominion over him.

e 1 Cor. xv. 3. For 1 delivered unto you first of all, that which I also received, how that Chrift 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 seen of Cephas, then of the twelve.

John xx. 25. The other disciples therefore faid unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall fee in his hands the

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print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his fide, I will not be. lieve. v. 27. Then faith he to Tho mas, 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.

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,

h Rom. viii. 34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Chrift that died, yea rather that is rifen again, who is even at the right-hand of God, who also maketh intercession 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 save them to the uttermolt, that come unto God by him, feeing he ever liveth to make interceffion for them.

i Rom. 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 befor the judgment feat of Christ. Acts i, 11. Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up in

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V. The Lord Jefus, by his perfect obedience and facrifice of himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered ☑upunto God, hath fully fatisfied the justice of his Father k; and purchased not only reconciliation, but an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father hath given unto him /.

to heaven? this fame 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 conimanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead, Mat. 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 fon 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 caft them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Jude 6. And the angels which kept not their first eftate, 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 ipared not the angels that finned, but caft them down to hell, anddelivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.

V. k Rom. v. 19. For as by one man's disobedience many were made finners: so by the obedience of one, fhall many be made righteous. Heb. ix. 14. How much more thall the tlood of Chrift, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? v. 16. For where a te flament is, there must also, of neceffity be the death of the teftator.

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Heb. x. 14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are fanctified. Eph. v. 2. And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and bath given himself for us, an offering and a facrifice to God for a sweet smelling favour. Rom. iii. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteonfnefs for the remiffion of fins that are past, through the forbearace of God. v. 26. To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jefus.

/ 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 everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vition and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy v. 26. And after threescore and two weeks shall Mefsiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come, shall deflroy the city and the sanctuary, 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 fay, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. Eph. i. 11, la whom also we have obtained

VI. Although the work of redemption was not actually

wrought by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the vertue, efficacy and benefits thereof were communicated unto the elect in all ages, fuccessively from the beginning of the world, in ⚫ and by those promises, types and facrifices, wherein he was revealed and fignified 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 the fame yesterday, and to-day, and for ever m.

VII. Chrift, in the work of mediation, acteth according to both natures; by each nature doing that which is proper to itself n: yet, by reason of the unity of the perfon, that which is proper to one nature, is sometimes in scripture attributed to the perfon denominated by the other nature 0.

Vill. To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption, he doth certainly and effectually apply and commu

obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. v. 14. Which is the earnest of our inheri. tance, until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. John xvii, 2. As thou haft 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 cause he is the Mediator of the new teftament, 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 fent forth his Son made of a woman, raade under the law, v. 5. To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption

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of fons. Gen. iii. 15. And 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 wor ship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Hebi xiii. 8. Jesus Christ the fame yesterday, and to day, and for ever,

VII. n Heb. ix. 14. (See letter k scripture the second.) 1 Pet. iii. 18. For Christ also hath once fuffered for sins, the just for the unjuft, (that he might bring us to God) being put to death in the Heh, but quickened by the Spirit.

• Acts xx. 28. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the holy Choft Lath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased 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. 1 John iii. 16.

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nicate the fame p; making intercession for them q; and revealing unto them, in and by the word, the mystery of falvation r; effectually perfuading them by his Spirit to believe and obey; and governeth their hearts by his word and Spirit/; overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom; in fuch

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 sent me, that of all which he hath given mé, 1 should lofe nothing, but should raise it up again, at the last day. John x. 15. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. v. 16. And other sheep I have, wnich are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice : and there shall be one fold, and one thepherd.

91 John ii. r. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: v. 2. And he is the propitiation for our fints : and not for ours only, but alfo for the fins of the whole world. Rom. viii. 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 also maketh: intercession for us.

r John xv. 13. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. v. 15. Henceforth call you rot fervants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth; but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you, phi. 7. In whom

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we have redemption through his blood. the forgiveness of fins, ac cording, to the riches of his grace; v. 8. Wherein he hath abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence. v. 9. Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, açcording to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself. John xvii. 6. I have manifested my 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 for ever. Heb. xii. 2. 'Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet 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 Chrift, he is none of his. v. 14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the fons of God. Rom. xv. 18. For I will not dare to fpeak of any of those things, which Chrift hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed. v. 19. Through mighty figns and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God;

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CHAP. X. Of Free Will.

OD hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor by any abíolute

neceffity of nature determined, to do good or evil a.

II. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God b; but yet mutably, fo that he might fall from it c.

so that from Jerufalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. John xvii. 17. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

2 Pfal, cx. 1. The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footftool. 1 Cor. xv. 25. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. v. 26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death. Mal. iv. 2. But unto you that fear my name, shall the fun of righteousness arife with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves in the stall. v. 3. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the foles of your feet, in the day that I shall do this, faith the Lord of hosts. Col. ii. 15. And having spoiled prin. cipalities and powers, he made a thew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

I. a Mat. xvii. 12. But I say unto you, that Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they lifted: likewise shall also the Son of man fuffer of them, James i. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own luft, and

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enticed, Deut. xxx. 19. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have fet before you life and death, bleffing and curfing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy feed may live.

II. b Eccl. vii. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have fought out many inventions. Gen. i. 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

c Gen. ii. 16. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayeft freely eat. v. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt furely die. Gen, iii. 6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wife, the took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did

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