Christian religion since he hath attained his just bounds their defences have been wonderfully successful not so their invasions And since the last divisions in the Church 1500. the many as unprosperous civil wars of Christians amongst themselves As on one side the famous invasion of the Swedes the attempts of the Reformed in the low-Countries in France On the other side the invasion of 88 The powderconspiracy the late insurrection of the Romanists in Ireland c. without any considerable advantage to that side which ever it be that is orthodox Neither did Moses and the giving of the law annul or weaken the covenant of grace being seniour to this promulgation of the law as it was renewed to Abraham yet being before him also 430 years Gal. 3. 17. neither yet did the Gospel i. e. the covenant of grace manifested and accomplisht in the times of the Gospel annul or weaken the law See Gal. 4. 21. Rom. 3. 31. -3. 21. And therefore the Gospel is said as to be preached to Abraham so also to them in the wilderness tho many of them it profited not as also now it doth not being not mixed with faith in many of the hearers Heb. 4. 2. And first for the law Ceremonial it was nothing but the Gospel in symbole and type and therefore is not abolished by the Gospel when fully manifested but only by being compleated and improved as the Gospel in shadow by the Gospel in substance or a child is by becoming a man Gal. 4. 3. -3. 24. Secondly for the law moral it now well consists with the Covenant of the Gospel not one title of it being expunged but rather as some think much enlarged and a stricter observance thereof then by Moses required by our Saviour See Maâ—…t 5. 17 18. comp 19 20. Rom. 8. 4. 1 Cor. 7. 19. And it was included and presupposed in the Covenant of grace transacted with Abraham Gen. 18. 19. Why then should we think that the law given at Sinai did not well accord with the Gospel that was then also preached Heb. 4. 2. Nay that more perfect knowledg of Gods will the giving of the law to Jacob c. whilst other nations walking in darkness were not so dealt with Ps. 147. 19. is quoted as a great priviledg and favour to that people by the Apostle Rom. 3. 2. -2. 18. -9. 4. where the Apostle reckons among benefits not only the promises and one Covenant but the Covenants and the giving of the law and rejoyced in as such every where by the Psalmist Ps. 119. -147. 20. which rendred them I mean the sons of faith not of works much more holy and less sinners then generally the Gentiles were see Gal. 2. 15. being a lantern to the feet of the children of the spirit as a letter of condemnation to those of the flesh and in that it is said to bring nothing to perfection Heb. 7. 19. being intimated to have the power to advance men some steps toward it For tho the law was not the Gospel nor the ministration of the letter the same with that of the spirit nor that of Moses with that of Christ yet one was subservient and a precognitum unto the other And it was first in order to receive the precept to tell us what is to be performed and then the spirit to enable us to perform it tho without the spirit also we never perfectly know it Therefore the first law-giving was to Adam as soon as created and to it answered especially the divulging of the Gospel to Abraham again the law was set forth again and as it were reprinted by Moses at Sinai and to it answered the manifestation and last edition of the Gospel by Christ coming in the flesh Yet tho thus the law is before the Gospel in order of nature yet not in time for even Adam himself as he had an external command to observe which was the letter of the law so had he the spirit to enable him for it and that the same spirit which is to us restored by the Gospel The ministration therefore of the law by Moses taken single and abstractively by it self from the ministration of the spirit which was also administred at the same time tho not in its great solemnity to the children of the promise and of faith tho not by Moses was of nothing but the letter and that letter a killing one impressed in stone but not upon the heart the the ministration of death 2 Cor. 3. 7. a Covenant faulty i. e. defective and no salvation by it but the promise annexed was only He that doth shall live in them a sentence of condemnation and so it accidentally happened to be then as now also to those who were of works and not of faith Gal. 3. 9 10. to those who had the administration of the letter only and not of the spirit In which sense taken all things are said in its disparagement the law ceremonial making nothing perfect the moral all fuller of sin and all those oppositions of the law to the Gospel and of Moses to Christ. See Heb. 8. 9. Therefore where the Apostle makes any such opposition 't is either of the more obscure manifestation of the Gospel and promises in the times under the law in respect of those after the incarnation of Christ Or of the law Ceremonial sometimes also called the old Covenant in respect of its accomplishment in Christ as this occurs often in the Epistle to the Hebrews Or not of the book of the old Testament i. e. of Moses and the Prophets to the new Testament i. e. of the Gospel of our Saviour for thus the new Testament is also contained in and proved out of the old but of the law moral considered by it self in the old Testament and abstracted there from all the promises of Gods mercy and of grace that are frequent in it only as it rigidly commands all righteousness forbids all sin promiseth rewards to those that keep denounceth punishments to those that transgress it and meanwhile changeth not helpeth not at all mans natural pravity and inability to observe it Yet thus also as the letter only it served well by shewing men their sins and inability to perform them to drive them forward with the rod of this Schoolmaster into the Covenant of grace see Rom. 3. 19 21. -9. 32. Gal. 3. 22 24. and to make them look after a Redeemer by seeing how guilty they stood before God and after the spirit promised and procured by him by seeing their former self-weakness which spirit and redeemer then also offered themselves to the children of faith Tho many of the Israelites abused this intention of the law by seeking justification by it rather then by faith Rom. 9. 32. whilst mean-while the ministration of the spirit see 2 Cor. 3. 6 7 8. Rom. 8. 2. Heb. 8. 10 11. writ it upon the hearts of the faithful by which spirit as the just lived and had
remission of former sins committed against this law by faith Psal. 32. 1 2. Rom. 4. 7 8. So he was enabled for the future to walk in those same laws see Luk. 1. 6. Rom. 8. 4. The law standing still in force as subordinate unto grace 1 Cor. 9. 21. for our works following faith and repentance tho not for those preceding them to which law we are alwaies to perform both sincere and universal obedience These two ministrations therefore of the law and of the spirit are opposed for their effect one taken single by itself without the other serving only for conviction and condemnation c. and for the persons by whom they came one by Moses the other by Christ but not for the time or for the time also but not as if in time I mean since Adams fall the one preceded the other for their absolute being but only in respect of the clearer manifestation first of the one then of the other at several times In the former times the law being more largely propounded the promises seen a far off and darkly as it were thro a cloud or veil 2 Cor. 3. 13. The Messias expected to appear in the flesh the gift of the spirit narrower for compass less in intention But the latter times from it now visibly sent down from Heaven enjoying clearer manifestations of truth larger effusions of grace 1 Cor 9. 10. To conclude As we find before the law from the beginning a double generation one sons of God and the other of men one righteous and the other wicked and in Abrahams time one born of the bond-woman another of the free-woman now those born of the free-woman are only such as are made free by Christ see Gal. 4. 31. -5. 1. one born after the flesh the other after the spirit or by promise Now the spirit is the promise of the Gospel as well as the Messias and comes only by the Messias one ex operibus the other ex vocante Rom. 9. 11. which two generations from the beginning were also shewed in the opposition between the elder and the younger as in Cain whose race was gigantick in comparision of the other Gen. 6. 4. and Abel or Seth Ismael Isaac Esau Jacob Ham and Shem c. Which may be observed also in Reuben and Judah Zarah and Pharez Manasses and Ephraim David and his brethren Aaron and Moses And not only in persons but nations ancienter and greater nations against that chosen for Gods people Israel and the Egyptian Israel and the Canaanites Israel and the Philistine Israel and Babylon Jew and Antiochus Jew and Gentile then Gentile the people of God and the Jew Apostate lastly the Church and Antichrist The Elder persecuting the younger or the former born the latter but yet the latter still overcoming the former for that which is first is natural 1 Cor. 15. 46. So under the law also we find a twofold generation one of faith holding of Abraham another of works of the law holding of Moses Gal. 3. 9 10. and two Covenants on foot the one the Mount Sinai and the other the Jerusalem-Covenant Gal. 4. 25. and two explanations upon them to guide men to which covenant they should adhere the one Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the law to do them and He that doth shall live in them Rom. 10. 5. Gal. 3. 12. quoting Deut. 17. 26. Levit. 18. 5. The other The just shall live by faith or Blessed is the man whose iniquities are forgiven See Rom. 3. 3 7 8. Gal. 3. 10 12 11. Rom. 4. 3. -9. 33. quoting Psal. 32. 1 2. Habbak 2. 4. Esai 28. 16. Gen. 15. 6. Nay see both these coming from the mouth of Moses who himself was a Son of faith The one Levit. 18. 5. the other Deut. 13. 11 12. explained by the Apostle Rom. 10. 5 6 7. c. The latter of which The word is nigh thee in thy heart c. that is saith he the word of faith and that same faith which the Gospel preacheth vers 8. And therefore as we are now referred for salvation to the preaching of Christ and his Apostles so Abraham then before these referred Dives his brethren for their salvation and escaping of hell to the preaching of Moses and the Prophets Luk. 16. 29 31. And both St. Paul and St. James treating about the point of justification take their examples out of the old Testament instancing how it was in Abraham amongst the Hebrews and Rahab amongst the Gentiles See Rom. 4. 1. c. Jam. 2. 21 25. And as the other held of Adam and the law so these latter in all ages held of Christ and the Gospel and as we now had alwaies the same Saviour their King to conduct them the same spirit to inspire and inform them the same Sacraments for substance to confirm them Baptism in the Red sea and in the Cloud thro which see Exod. 14. 19 -13. 21. Matt. 3. 11. they passed to Canaan and the Eucharist the body of our Lord in the Manna coming down from Heaven and his blood in the water streaming out of the rock 1 Cor. 10. 1. c. So Circumcision was administred and their sacrifices used by them as Baptism and the Eucharist by us of which instituted by the Lord Jesus theirs delivered to the fathers were types for remission of sin and conferring grace for appeasing Gods wrath and thanksgiving for mercies with reference to the same blood of the new Testament and the onely true sacrifice So St. Austin de nuptiis concupiscentia l. 2. c. 11. saith Circumcisionem ad purgationem originalis peccati valuisse magnis parvis quemadmodum nunc Baptismus And that threat Gen. 17. 14. That soul shall be cut off from his people is ordinarily understood that he is cut off as well for being extra pactum as being praecepti violati reus And tho Circumcision in Abraham who was before the receipt thereof justified by faith was only a seal of that former justification as also the Sacrament of Baptism was to Cornelius saith St. Austin contra Donatistas l. 4. c. 24. See Act. 10. 47. comp 44. and is to many other Yet this hinders not saith Estius 4. Sent. 1. d. 31. sec. but that in parvulissicut nunc Baptismus ita olim Circumcisio non nudum esset signaculum justitiae interioris sed efficax atque operatorium And St. Austin ibid. Cur ergo ei praeceptum est ut omnem deinceps infantem octavo die circumcideret nisi quia ipsum per seipsum sacramentum multum valebat And for this purpose also were their sacrifices used See Lev. 4. 20 26. and the Priest shall make an attonement for him as concerning his sin and it shall be forgiven him Vulgar Rogabitque pro eo Sacerdos pro peccato ejus dimittetur ei See Lev. cap. â—… cap. 17. and Numb 15. cap. and Heb. 5. 1. That he might offer sacrifices
Heb. 2. 17. and tempted Heb. 2. 18. like unto his Brethren undergoing temptations from Sathan more then once Luk. 4. 13. and so far as to be carried up and down by him Matt. 4. 5. and that unclean spirit the most cursed of all the creatures of God to be suffered to take his onely Son in his arms From the world having all the glory of it presented to him Matt. 4. 9. a Kingdom offered him Jo. 6. 15. From the often necessities and natural inclinations of the flesh as may be sufficiently discovered in that passionate sad blood-sweating prayer many times iterated to be freed from death which he so resignedly concluded with not my will but thine be done for our example as if himself would have learnt patience by the things which he suffered Heb. 5. 8. He voluntarily became of no reputation Phil. 2. 7 A man of sorrows Esai 53. 3. put himself in the worst condition of life that those in the worst condition may neither complain nor boast that their sufferings are gone below the Son of God and then ended it in the most ignominious death upon a Gibbet naked among theeves a death inflicted on no free man particularly cursed by God Gal. 3. 13. Deut. 21. 23. commanded and executed under the Law only in the most horrid crimes as in the Israelites idolatry with Moab The perjur'd murthers of Saul the Kings of the cursed Canaanites to appease Gods extraordinary wrath where Famine or Plague broke out upon the people therefore is it stiled hanging them up before the Lord. And so â—…oathsome a spectacle was enjoyned again to be taken down and buried the same day as our Saviour was as it were out of his sight See Deut. 21. 22. Numb 25. 4. Josh. 10. 26. 2 Sam. 21. 6. This such a death he underwent despising the shame Heb. 12. 2. that in the greatest ignominy of their end also all his Sons might see before them a Divine precedent And suffered being perfectly innocent that none hereafter might think much to suffer for innocency all being some other way personally guilty For our example he became lowly and meek and stooped his neck unto the yoke that we might learn of him to be so too Mat. 11. 29. and put his shoulder under the heaviest cross that ever man bare that we might take up our lighter ones and follow him Luk. 9. And thus he suffered and thus he dyed not only before us but also for us first that his love saith the Apostle might constrain us 2 Cor. 5. 13. by his example so to suffer and to dy again if need be for him or also for one another 2 Cor. 12. 15. and that as he died for sin so we might dy to it Rom. 6. 6. 3. Thus our Saviour was made uuto us a pattern of sufferings Next God sent his Son to be to us in his resurrection from this death and reception into glory a pattern of the reward promised to obedience life eternal An example as of performing all the obedience active and passive God by him required of us so of receiving the reward God by him promised to us That so not only the promise of a greater reward then was revealed to the world formerly at least so expressly might more encourage us to weldoing but also the seeing of that reward bestowed upon the obedient might yet excite us more then the promise whilst we being yet in the combate behold another that used only the same weapons against the same enemies in the same infirmities crowned with victory and look unto one who running the same race for the joy also that was set before him enduring the Cross and despising the shame now for it is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God whilst considering him that endured such contradiction c. now for it exalted above all gainsaying we may not be wearied nor faint in our minds Heb. 12. 1 2 3. Therefore it was necessary that the Prophet that taught a resurrection should dy to shew us an example of deliverance from death And it was necessary that God should raise again this just person from the dead and cause him to reign to assure us by this example that whoever suffers with i. e. like Him shall also reign together with him Rom. 8. 17. and that we professing to be dead with him to sin should now likewise walk with him in newness of life Rom. 4. 6. For Christs exaltation also was bestowed on him for his obedience See Heb. 2. 9. Phil. 1. 8 9. Heb 1. 9. Rev. 3. 21. -5. 12. And as the natural Son came thus to be a pattern to us so must all the adopted Sons of God be a transcript and copy of him As if we obey and suffer as he we shall reign as he so if we will reign as he we must suffer and obey as he tho not so much as he yet in such manner as he For also neither shall we reign in such eminence as He. It is very well if the Servant be as his Lord Matt. 10. 25. not above Him And he that abideth in Christ ought himself also to walk even as he also walked 1 Jo. 2. 6. And that none may justly pretend inability so to walk I mean to some measure of perfection tho not to an equal with his for neither hath any had an equal measure of the Spirit to his he hath purchased from his Father the Derivation of the same Spirit on us which inabled himself Which holy Spirit is conferred and from time to time renewed and increased by the Sacraments i. e. non ponentibus obicem to the not wilfully and obstinatly unworthy receivers thereof and which Spirit alwaies abideth in us unless by great sins such as we are perpetually inabled to avoid it happen to be expelled and who so obeyeth the natural motions thereof must as necessarily operate the work of Christ the second Adam as he that abides still in the former state of the flesh must needs do the works of the first For as what is born of Flesh is Flesh so what is born of Spirit is Spirit and the same Spirit in the man Jesus and us guided that man no otherwise than us and now doth guide us as then Him CHAP. III. Jesus Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant GODS former Covenant of works with mankind made at the Creation and called the Law of Nature and again solemnized at Mount Sinai to that Nation to which he had confined his Church at the delivery of the law of Moses who was then the Mediator that passed between God and man see Exod. 14. mentioned Heb. 8. 9. being found unprofitable Heb. 8. 7 13. Man not continuing in the promised observance of it for indeed the promulgation of the law was effectual to make him more conscious of his sin but not to make him more observant of his duty see Rom. 7. 6. yet served it well to other Gods purposes intended by
salvation and eternal life Rom. 5. 16. Now since all our benefit by him comes from our ingrafting and incorporation into him that so his sufferings may be accounted for ours the Sacrament or religious Ceremony instituted to convey unto us this first effect of the second Adams dying for us and so freeing us from the condemnation and washing us with his blood from the stains of our former sins is Baptism After which tho the infirmity of concupiscence still remain for the benefits of the second Adam are not fully perfected till this life is ended yet is both the strength thereof much abated and the reatus or guilt thereof totally removed i. e. that none shall be condemned for the solicitations and importunings thereof which will happen till our redemption is compleated so they be by him sor which he is enabled with sufficient grace mastered and supprest Therefore are we said in the Scripture to be baptized into Christ to put on Christ. Gal. 3. 27. Rom. 6. 2. to be in Christ Rom. 8. 1. Phil. 3. 9. by one spirit to be baptized into one body 1 Cor. 12. 13. To be baptized into his death to be co-planted in the likeness of his death and to be buried with him in Baptism Rom. 6. 3 4. c. 1 Pet. 4. 1. by baptism to be saved from death and sin 1 Pet. 3. 20 21. c. and therefore as Baptism is called our death so his death by him is called a Baptism Matt. 20. 23 Luk. 12. 50. What by him was really performed being by us too represented and acted in Baptism For our Savior is supposed see Rom. 6. chap. to represent till his death a son of Adam as we are and one that had took sin upon him tho he had none in him and so to suffer the punishment and dy to it as well as for it that is no more afterward to be charged with it Rom. 6. 10. and then to rise again a new man according to which we true sinners in baptism are supposed to dy with him to sin Rom. 6. 2. no more to live in it and then to be born again of him to begin a new life a life to holiness called also newness of life Rom. 6. 4. life spiritual opposed to the former carnal see Gal. 6. 1. 1 Cor. 2. 15. Rom. 7. 6. according to which we are said to be already risen with Christ. Col. 3. 1. That is from death in sin Baptism signifying 1. both our putting on some think signified by the expression borrowed from the pulling of old clothes and putting on new a Ceremony used at Baptism in the Apostles times and after them in the primitive Church and being ingrafted into Christ so that we have right to his sufferings c. and 2. then by virtue of his death our being cleansed from sin typified by the water washing us and then 3. our putting to death crucifying and putting off the old man Rom. 6. 6. the son of Adam and so dying to sin signified by the ancient manner of immersion of the body under water nothing of it to be seen and 4. then our putting on the new man and Christ our being born again of water and the spirit and being made a new creature represented in the emersion and elevation again out of the water See Col. 2. 12. -3. 10. Jo. 3. 5. As if you stood by those curing waters of Bethesda nâ—…w stirred by an Angel and saw a son of the first Adam consisting all of flesh diving into those waters all polluted with sin and dying in them which thing one man in every ones stead did for us and then springing up a new child out of this old stock the son of the second Adam consisting of spirit Jo. 3. 6. 1 Cor. 6. 17. washed clean and pure to live a new life in obedience 2. After he hath thus Communicated unto us as many as are his members absolution from sin by his dying to it for us and our implantation into his death by baptism the second blessing he derives upon his seed is Righteousness Rom. 5. 15 18. 19. Luk. 1. 72 75. that by this we may attain life eternal as by deliverance from sin we escaped death And this righteousness this second Adam conveighs unto us in two manners As Adam in like manner did sin to his posterity 1. For first as we derived both from the example of Adams disobedience and from the propagation of his flesh a natural soliciter even in mans innocence for its own delights without regard of their lawfulness Gen. 3. 6. but much more after the fall a pronity to evil and by loss of the Spirit inability to good so from the example of Christs obedience and the traduction of his spirit we receive a new ability inclination and pronity to good and aversion from evil See Eph. 2. 10. Tit. 2. 14. Jo. 8. 39 41 44. Rom. Rom. 13. 14. Eph. 4. 23 24. Rom. 11. 16. 2. Again as his posterity for Adams one sin and disobedience was made sinner and judgment and condemnation came upon them who sinned not after the similitude of his transgression for not their but his disobedience and that also one onely disobedience of his Rom. 5. 12. c. to the 20th The branches being holy or unholy as the root is See Rom. 11. 16 28. Heb. 7. 9 10. So the posterity of Christ both when they yeild obedience yet for his obedience and righteousness not theirs is accepted theirs whether devotions or good works at least many of them being by reason of the remains of the old man as yet only crucified in part weak and imperfect but his compleat and exact for which therefore all the imperfections of theirs by faith are pardoned And when they disobey their obedience likewise being not constant their repentance if it be rightly performed i. e. by now dying to their new sin since baptism in pennance and mortifications and commemorating the Lords passion in the Communion Matt. 26. 28. 1 Jo. 2. 1 2. serving to the remission of sin as they died before to their old ones in Baptism and then by living afterward according to the spirit for his sufferings and obedience is also accepted for obedience So that we are made righteous in Christ see Rom. 8. 1. comp Heb. 7. 9. 10. as well as from Christ in our selves by his spirit as also we were sinners in Adam Rom. 5. 12. as well as from Adam in our selves by the flesh derived from Him See Rom. 5. 15 19. Phil. 3. 9. Rom. 8. 1. 2 Cor. 5. 21. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Eph. 1. 4 6. 1 Pet. 2. 5. Eph. 4. 24. Col. 3. 17. 3. Thus Jesus Christ the righteous 1 Joh. 2. 1. derives to all his members righteousness and life spiritual opposed to carnal Next He for this righteousness advanced by God to Immortality Kingdom Glory c. derives upon his seed the reward of Righteousness life eternal opposed to this
for sins so Job c. 1. v. 5. offered sacrifice for the sins of his sons and 42. cap. 8 and v. 9. he offered sacrifice and prayed for the trespasses of his friends and God accepted him See the same 2 Sam. 24. 25. How like is that Lev. 4. 26. in the old Testament to Jam. 5. 14 15. in the new for remission of sin by the Priests using sacred ceremonies and praier and that Deut. 34. 9. to Act. 8. 17. for conferring of the graces of the spirit Therefore thus St. Austin Quaest. 84. in Levit. Moses sanctificabat visibilibus sacramentis per ministerium suum Dominus invisibili gratia per spiritum suum And Tract 26. in Johan he saith Sacramenta Judaeorum nostra fuisse in signis diversa in re quae significatur paria quoting 1 Cor. 10. 2 3. Omnes eandem escam spiritualem manducaverant spiritualem utique eandem quam nos Aliud illi aliud nos sed specie visibili quod tamen hoc idem significaret virtute spirituali To which I will add two sayings of Leo the one Serm. 3. de Nativit Domini Non minus adepti qui in illud magnae pietatis sacramentum credidere promissum quam qui suscepere donatum The other Serm. 1. in die Pentecost Cum in die Pentecostes discipulos Domini spiritus sanctus implevit non fuit inchoatio muneris sed adjectio largitatis Quoniam Patriarchae Prophetae Sacerdotes omnesque Sancti qui prioribus fuere temporibus ejusdem sunt spiritus sancti sanctificatione vegetati sine hac gratia nulla unquam instituta sacramenta nulla sunt celebrata mysteria ut eadem semper fuerit virtus charismatum quamvis non eadem fuerit mensura donorum Indeed the Sacraments of the old Testament considered in themselves as separate from or opposite to the merit of Christ and the grace of the Gospel were of no power for expiating sin or conferring grace We find the Sacrifices also instituted in Levit. for lesser sins those of ignorance those offending against some legal rites and ceremonies those damaging our neighbor in some smaller matters joyned with restitution but not for expiation of the great ones murder idolatry blasphemy or adultery and for these lesser sins we may not imagine them expiatory of the guilt or sin in it self save as they foresignified the merits of the Sacrifice on the Cross and thus strengthned the faith of the offerer in the promises to come for which faith obeying Gods command in offering to him these Types thereof the merits of the Sacrifice of the Cross was applied to him for remission of his sin great or little but only of the legal immundicities or some temporal penalties due thereto which sacrifices therefore were of themselves quotidiana peccatorum accusatio but not solutio as St. Chrysostom in Heb. Hom. 17. Therefore also where we find discourse in the Prophets of remission of sin as in Ezekiel 18. chap. the legal Sacrifices are not proposed as any remedy thereof and many times spoken of in the old Testament as unprofitable thereunto And what is said here of the common and ordinary Sacrifices is to be said for those more solemn ones offered once a year on the great day of expiation which are extensible only to the same ends and purposes as the ordinary Sacrifices were Again these Sacrifices also for the expiation of the exteriour immundicity and punishment of the lesser sins for which they were ordained in this came short of that all-sufficient Sacrifice of our Lord that they neither procured such indulgence from God for any future sin of the same kind but so many sins as were committed so many several Sacrifices were to be slain and offered nor procured from him any grace or special assistance of his Spirit for the prevention of such future sins But left those for whom they were offered as liable to the same sins as they were before whereas our Lords one oblation made satisfaction for all future sins as well as past and also procured from God the plentiful effusion of the Holy Spirit and Grace for preventing of a relapse into sin for the future This then was the great weakness and unprofitableness of the Sacraments and Sacrifices of the Law Heb. 7. 18. Therefore the Apostle calls them but beggarly elements Gal. 4. 9. and in the 9. and 10. chapter to the Hebrews denies they could take away sin c. and in many places speaks against the unprofitableness of circumcision c. as also many things are said in the old Testament in disparagement of the sacrifices under the law But as Estius 4. Sent. 1 d. 28 s. methinks well notes Quae ab Apostolo and so I may say of those things said by the Prophets contra Judaeos proprie dicta sunt qui Christum solum justificatorem ignorantes signa pro rebus amplectebantur existimantes sacrificia sacramenta veteris legis per seipsa deo accepta propitiatoria esse ut Christi sanguine opus non esset And the same thing may be said of John Baptists baptism which tho certainly as relating to the blood of Christ we cannot imagine that it was inferiour in its effects to the former Sacraments administred before or under the law to those who died not having the opportunity of receiving our Saviours after it yet first considered in it self and as the Jews looked upon it as an external washing only coming from John it was as he told them only a Baptism of water not of the spirit He administring no more then the external sign only but Christ that came after him the inward Grace for that measure thereof that was in Johns Baptism as in other old-Testament-Sacraments received Secondly Tho in his Baptism or other former Sacraments to the rightly prepared Grace might be and was received yet was there no descent of the Holy Ghost or donation of those higher gifts or Graces thereof which externally manifested its internal presence and therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had the name of the Holy Ghost see Act. 8. 17. Act. 1. 8. -10. 44. -19. 6. comp 2 3. of which doubtless the Baptist speaks Matt. 3. 11. distributed save extraordinarily till the coming of our Lord and by his Missioners the first effusion thereof being at Pentecost and so continuing ever since more frequent in the Church as to several of these eminent gifts thereof to and upon so many whose hearts and conversation are very much purified from sin for which therefore John was sent before our Lord to prepare the world by a due repentance and reformation our Lord not vouchsa fing to put this new wine save into new vessels for defect of which even in these latter times of the Gospel also the donation of the Holy Ghost taken in this sense is not so common It must be granted then that the former Sacraments also as they referred to Christ yet were many waies inferiour in the benefit received
general i. e. in respect of all persons and of all Covenants made with and promises made to them but only to those times in respect of the covenant of works which then by the errour of many of the Jews the children of works was generally more looked after then the Covenant of faith which had then but few followers see Rom. 9. 31 32. when also the one Covenant was more largely and legibly drawn in great Characters the other put forth more obscure and in a lesser Print and a veil drawn over it 2 Cor. 3. 14. till the fulness of time was come Therefore also the former times had the denomination of the times of the law the latter of the Gospel And again in respect of the literal promise under the law of felicity in the earthly Canaan Therefore where the Apostle saith established on better promises understand there those typical ones of earthly Canaan made to Israel at the promulgation of the law Or opposed to those times in general but this only first in respect of the diverse administrations of the former times with many troublesome ceremonials and types to be afterward abolished and of the degrees of the greater manifestations in the latter times of the way of salvation being void of shadows types and figures all these now being brought to perfection and accomplishment in the incarnation of the Son effusions of the Spirit enlargement of the Church promulgation of an Heavenly country instead of an Earthly Canaan and from these greater manifestations many more of the children of works becoming now the children of faith And from its stronger beams as well those illuminated who before sate in darkness Luk. 1. 79. and midnight as this light increased to those who had before some dawnings thereof And secondly in respect of the accomplishment of those promises to the faithful of the former ages which are made thro Christ spoken of Heb. 11. 13 14 16. In which they could not be compleated and perfected before the times of the Gospel neither in respect of the body they waiting for the restorement of that till those of the Gospel are glorified with them nor according to the reverend opinion of Antiquity in respect of the soul they not having the kingdom of heaven laid fully opened unto them till our Saviour was first entred in thither See Eph. 1. 10. Col. 1. 20. Heb. 11. 39 40. -12. 23. For indeed the performance and perfection of the mystery of mans redemtion was a thing only received in the last daies And tho the virtue of Christs incarnation is communicated alwaies to all men yet not the latter times on the former but the former depend on the latter for the substance and ground of their hope and salvation Jesus Christ come in the flesh These having the body of which body coming toward them the other had the shadow Col. 2. 17. And in these respects the times of the Gospel are said to have so much advantage of those of the law we seeing in a clear glass Gods glory they thro a thick veil we 2 Cor. 3. 13. standing in a clear whereas the best of them in a dim light and the most of them in utter darkness See Matt. 13. 17. -11. 11. 1 Cor. 2. 10. c. 2 Cor. 3. 7. c. Here note that the oppositions of the times that are used in the other heads preceding in which I follow only the phrase of the Holy Scriptures are by these limitations so to be interpreted as that they no way contradict the doctrine of this last chapter FINIS §. 1. Jâ—…sus Christ the truth in the fulness of time Sent. § 2. § 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. §. 4. § 5. Anointed §. 6. A new Law-giver for the law moral 1. Expounding it 2. Requiring stricter obedience 3. Denouncing heavier judgments §. 7. Ministring the spirit § 8. Abrogating the letter § 9. For the law ceremonial Cancelling it § 10. 2 An Apostle of the Gospel §. 11. Preaching it §. 12. Remitting sins giving the Holy Ghost admitting into the kingdom of Heaven §. 13. Before his departure ordaining others §. 14. Transferring his authority to them §. 15. § 16. §. 17. Assisting them from Heaven §. 18. §. 19. Those ordaining others to the end of the world §. 20. He assisting their Successors for ever §. 21. The Apostles also delegating to them the authority received from Him §. 22. The truth of our Saviours doctrines c. attested by 1. Scripture 2 Spirâ—…t 3. Miracles 4. Death §. 23. And a resurrection The way § 1. Christ an Example 1 In doing the work In all obedience to Gods commandements Moral §. 2. Ceremonial § 3. 2 In all sufferings for righteousness sake §. 4. 2 In receiving the reward §. 1. Christ Mediator of the new Covenant §. 2. Enlarged Established 〈◊〉 â—…tter promises §. 4. § 5. The blood of this â—…ovenant §. 6. The Death ratifying this Testament § 7. Performance of tâ—…e promiâ—…es put into his hands revived §. 1. Christ the Sacrifice §. 2. §. 3. §. 4. §. â—… 〈◊〉 1 Sin-offering for remission of guilt §. 6. 2 For puriâ—…ing uncleannesses §. 7. 3 Holocavst §. 8. 4 Eucharistical Peace or thank-offering §. 9. §. 9. §. 10. By eating of which we have Communion 1. with God 2 With his Son and all that is his §. 11. 3 With the Saints and all that is theirs §. 12. And are preserved in both soul and body unto life eternal §. 13. 4 The â—…over § 1. 5. Mans debt to and bondage under 1 Sin §. 2. 2 The law §. 3. 3 Death § 4. 4 Satan 1 As the executioner of Gods justice 2 As Prince of this world §. 5. §. 6. Christ our Redeemer 1 By paying a ransom freeing us from debt §. 7. 2 By making a Conquest freeâ—… us from slavery §. 8. Our Redemption not yet fully perfected §. 9. And why §. 10. How much already performed 1 In respect of sin §. 11. 2 Of the law §. 12. Of Death §. 13. Of Satan § 〈◊〉 §. 1. Christ the second Adam Dependent 〈◊〉 God the Father Before his Incarnation §. 2. Much more after it §. 3. Assuming the infirmities of human nature § 4. Receiving the perfections of it from God his Father §. 5. §. 6. §. 7. A Covenant made with the second Adam as with the first involuving his seed §. 8. He fulfils it By walkâ—… 〈◊〉 a quite contrary way to the first §. 9. §. 10. Receives the reâ—…ard For himself For â—…is sâ—…d 1 The Spirit 2 Life §. 11. His particular benefits 1 As our â—…ead communicates absolution from sin by his death for it § 12. Baptism incorporating us into his death The Sacrament of pardon §. 13. 2 As our â—…ead communicates righteousness or life spiritual by his Resurrection 1 〈◊〉 us to perform 〈◊〉 2 Compleating our imperfect righteousness 3 As our head communicates glory or life eternal in our resurrection §. 14. 1 Effected by the same spirit
other side to minister the Holy spirit to others by their preaching by prayer and laying on of their hands as he had before to them The same Ceremony being used also by Moses to his Successour under the Law See Deut. 34. 9. Num. 11. By Elijah to Elisha in the Prophets See 2 King 2. 15. Gal. 3. 2 5. 2 Cor. 3. 6. Act. 8. 15 19. Subjecting evil spirits unto them and giving them security from and power over all the power of the enemy See Luk. 10. 18 19 20. Behold I give you power over all the power of the enemy where note that the mission and Authority given to the Apostles before or after our Saviours death are the same only spoken of before as it were by Anticipation and promise which were compleated afterward See Matt. 16. 19. comp with Jo. 20. 23 Enabling them to do the same Miracles as he for confirmation of their doctrine and because their commission was enlarged to all Nations furnishing them with the gift of Tongues Lastly as himself worketh in these his missioners by the spirit so also he cooperateth and worketh with them in others by the same spirit working by them 2 Cor. 5. 20. and yet working together with them too 2 Cor. 6. 1. By whose power only their ministry becomes efficacious over the world 1 Cor. 3. 7 9. Mark 16. 20. 1 Tim. 1. 12. where they plant and water he giving increase 1 Cor. 3. 9 where the spirit from them pricks the heart Act. 2. 37. the same Spirit from him opening it Act. 16. 14. where they take the impotent by the hand he making him to walk Act. 4. 10. Mark 16. 20. see § 20. And it is not to be past by unobserved that our Saviour delegated this his Authority to others not with a parity unto all but with a superiority of some above the rest who as they gave license of some ministrations to others found qualified for them See Act. 10. 48. so they retained some other ministrations to themselves For we find laying on of hands which is named Heb. 6. 2. amongst the principles of the doctrine of Christ both that at or after Baptism used to all for receiving the more extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost from whence the custome since of Confirmation by the Bishop and that which was used in ordaining Presbyters and setting men apart for the Ministry of the Gospel This imposition of hands being a more solemn intercession for them and a powerful recommendation of them to the grace of God for the work which they are called to and are to fulfil See Act. 13. 3. comp with 14. 26. See St Paul himself receiving the first Act. 9. 17. the second Act. 13. 3. wee find I say this imposition of hands or power of Ordination and Confirmation to be appropriated to the Apostles and Apostolical men not common to all See Act. 6. 6. -8. 17 -19. 6. -20. 28. -13. 3. Eph. 1. 13. 1 Tim. 5. 22. Tit. 1. 5. For this cause left I thee in Crete that thou shouldest ordain Presbyters c. where doubtless were many other Presbyters to whom the same office was not permitted or not permitted to them alone but as assistants to Titus See 1 Tim. 4. 14. comp with 2 Tim. 1. 6 as also a consent and approbation or also nomination or election of persons whom they thought fitting was permitted to the Christian Assemblies and the whole Church Act. 6. 3. comp with 6. 2 Cor. 8. 19. tho 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 implies not necessarily common votes See Act. 10. 41. -14. 23. the people being present at the publique acts of the Clergy and assisting them at least with their prayers See Act. 21. 22. -15. 22. 2 Cor. 2. 10. Nor did this Apostolical office of our Lord expire with the Apostles as some may think that there was no need of continuing such a selected Body of Teachers after Christianity planted and four Gospels and so many Epistles written yet what would not the same men give for such an Apostle at this day as could decide so many controversies which are in Religion whilst they say they need them not But he who lives for ever and hath the keyes c. Rev. 1. 18. and who ascended from hence on high to receive these very gifts for and to bestow then on men Eph. 4. 7 8. continues for ever also this office of ordination by his Servants laying on their hands and his own breathing upon and giving the spirit unto them to those that have succeeded the Apostles and that shall succeed to the end of the world Therefore as he gave the Apostles so 't is said also he gave the Pastors and Teachers according to the measure of the gift he thought fit that were made by the Apostles Eph. 4. 11 8. Rom. 10. 15. 2 Tim. 1. 14. Matt. 23. 24. And Act. 20. 28. the Holy Ghost descending from Him made the Overseers of the Church of Ephesus And how can they preach unless they be sent Rom. 10. 15. sent i. e. by God Heb. 5. 4. For this honour especially of ministring the spirit remitting sins c. never any man might take to himself but only give what he first received If he do otherwise he is in a worse condition then Simon who at least would have bought the giving it Sent by God I say else is their preaching to no purpose the effect of which for ever consists not in the wisdom of men which works contrary to it as thought foolishness but in the power of God 1 Cor. 2. 5. see 1 Cor. 12. 3. Matt. 16. 17. 1 Jo. 4. 2. Luk. 18. 34. Act. 16. 14. Jam. 1. 5 17. -3. 15 17. Eph. 3. 5. Therefore St Paul calls his Apostleship a Grace and those whom the Apostle as well as whom our Saviour ordained received in such Ordination a gift from our Lord see 1 Tim. 4. 14. 2 Tim. 1. 6. And the same form of Doctrine was kept in the Apostles successours by the same Holy Ghost 2 Tim. 1. 14. Neither is Christs assistance promised only to the Apostles but to their Successours to the end of the world Matt. 28. 20. Jo. 14. 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. an assistant to you for ever Matt. 18. 20. comp Col. 2. 5. The Church alwaies the pillar and ground where truth is to be found 1 Tim. 3. 15. 2 Tim. 2. 19. comp 16 17. Heb. 12. 25. Tell the Church saith our Lord for whatsoever they shall bind c. Matt. 18. 17 18 And the gates of Hell shall never prevail against those to whom I give the keyes c. Matt. 16. 18 19. Therefore our Saviour after all the Apostles times except Johns is described Rev. 1. 13 16. tho in glory yet walking in the midst of the golden Candlesticks i. e. the Churches of Asia and holding the Stars i. e. the Angels of those Churches in his hands And see our Lord still acting Act. 3. 26. Act. 5. 31.
Myriads of Angels for his assistance yet as a Lamb dumb before the Shearer so He opened not his mouth Matt. 27. 14. According to Matt. 5. 44. He suffered death it self for his enemies that he might shew the greatest love that could be to them He prayed for those that despitefully used him Father forgive them Luk. 23. 34. He returned good for evil continually and especially in that eminent example of restoring his eare to the High Priests Servant According to Matt. 6. 3. In so often hiding his Miracles he endeavoured that his left hand might not know what his right hand did see Mark 1. 44. Matt. 17. 9. Luk. 9. 21. Mark 7. 36. So when he grew famous in Judea and preferred before the Baptist either not to prejudice Johâ—…s Ministry or to avoid vain popular concourse and applause he removed presently out of the Country See Jo. 4. 1 3. According to Matt. 19. 21 24. Luk. 12. 31 33. He made an election of the state of poverty leaving all his friends for the service of God travailing up and down the Country on foot see Jo. 4. 6. Receiving alms from others Luk. 8. 3. and enjoyning the same to his Disciples Matt. 10. 9. the Labourer being worthy of his meat from those he labours for vers 10. According to Matt. 6. 6. he hid his Devotions with Wildernesses Mountains Nights Luk. 5. 16. -6. 12. According to Matt. 5. 29. Luk. 14. 26. He forsook his reputed Father and his Mother and Kindred when they might have hindred him in his Service to God See Luk. 2. 48. Matt. 12. 47 48. According to his Doctrine Matt. 6. 25. c. He laid up no treasure upon earth took no thought for his life or for the morrow not so much as for his next nights lodging not having many times where to lay his head Matt. 8. 20. But all these things were by Gods providence by some that followed him ordinarily added unto him Luk. 8. 3. According to his Doctrine Matt. 20. 26. He made himself inferior to the lowest of his inferiors even to the Servant that he then knew would betray his life even to the stooping to wash and wipe their feet Jo. 13. 15 And did this for this very reason to give them a good example The chief among you let him be your servant Even as the Son of Man c. Matt. 20. 28. So in his very triumph when all saluted him King and covered his way with garments his lowliness made choice of an Asse to carry him a little young Asse Matt. 21. 5. to shew humility According to his Doctrine Matt. 6. 33. He prosecuted all Righteousness with such zeal and diligence that he scarce allowed himself time to eat on the day time for doing good to men See Jo. 4. 31 34. Mark 6. 3. 31. or to sleep in the night for following his Devotions to God Mark. 1. 35. Luk. 6. 12. Lastly as the Apostle observed Christ pleased not himself Rom. 15. 3. but sought the good of others and this for our learning Ver. 4. And as for the Moral so for the Ceremonial law very punctual he was in all obedience tho useless and non-significant in him as it related to remission of sin c. yet coming at best in the likeness of sinful flesh Rom. 8. 3. he was circumcised was baptized with the Ceremony of the descent of the Holy Ghost celebrated the Passover the Eucharist tho alwaies full of the Holy Ghost and free from sin he needed no cleansings nor expiations signified by the one nor had this Redeemer received any redemption signified by the other Kept the solemn Feasts and the Sabbath whatever they falsely alledged against him exactly tho he was absolute Lord of it Matt. 12. 8. was obedient to every human ordinance To John the Baptist wondring at this his humility to his Parents to his Governors tho he the Creator of them and Governor at that very time of all things to whom all things in Heaven and Earth ought to bow paid tribute patiently tho free least the standing on his right might be any way offensive Matt. 17. 27. Fasted 40 days together tho his flesh was constantly obedient to the spirit to shew to others that excellent way of conquering temptation sought by prayer what he might command Luk. 22. 32. prayed whole nights together tho he knew his Father heard him alwaies Jo. 11. 42 to teach us by his example the lesson Luk. 18. 1. suffered such anguish and affliction for our sins in the Garden to teach us what we ought to practise for them our selves in repentance For thus it became him to fulfil all that being our Leader the doing of which was necessary righteousness and obedience in his followers Matt. 3. 15. Thus God sent his Son to be an Example to us and a forerunner in all holy obedience to his commands God again decreeing that all that yeild this obedience shall in this world suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3. 12. that they that receive good things hereafter shall now receive evil Luk. 16. 15. Luk. 6. 21 24. that they that shall laugh hereafter shall now mourn as they also that laugh now shall mourn hereafter And indeed it cannot otherwise be as long as there are more evil men then good nor this to have more men evil be otherwise as long as men have free-will to evil which is any deviation whether in excess or defect from good and therefore bonum being unum and malum multiplex much easier then good nor again can this be otherwise i. e. that men should not have free will unless we wiser then God would have the world new moulded without containing any free-willagent in it and what is this but having in it a great imperfection and defect That there may be a vicissitude in all things sent his Son to be a pattern to the rest of his Servants of all sufferings For it became him saith the Apostle by whom and for whom are all things in his sacred purpose of bringing many Sons thro mortality and affliction unto glory to make also the Captain of their Salvation perfect thro sufferings Heb. 2. 10. That so he also might first sound the depths of human miseries and being just of our pitch might wade before us thro them all and shew them easily passable that we might follow him with cheerfulness and courage and not expostulate with the Almighty if here perchance he useth us no better yet whom doth he not so then he did his only Son his Son in whom he was alwaies so well pleased Matt. 3. 17. that never sinned against him And thus in obedience to his Father first clothed with all the innocent infirmities of our nature and indulging himself none of the contents thereof Rom. 15. 3. But exercising a perfect abnegation of himself and of his own will tho he had also his natural affections after things agreeing to it See 1 Jo. 5. 30. Matt. 26. 39. In all things made
18. For as he in our stead was made sin and an accursed thing and an offering that calling sin to remembrance suffered the extreme wrath of the Almighty due to sin so in himself and this for our sake too he was not only in his death being a voluntary and a free will-offering see Jo. 10. 15 17 18. comp with Jo. 19. 30 33. the other living longer for this my Father loveth me c. and so also loveth us for whom it is offered for his sake Eph. 1. 6. but all his life an Holocaust consumed with the fire of love towards man and zeal of the glory of his Father in a perfect devotement and resignation of his whole self to the will of God and in his perfect obedience and fulfilling of all his Commandements And then when he had done working Jo. 17. 4. finishing this Holocaust in suffering for the divine glory for the truth suffering till he was all spent and consumed with the zeal of his Fathers honor laid upon which whole burnt-offering all our imperfect sacrifices of obedience and resignation of sufferings and martyrdom of spending and being spent 2 Cor. 12. 15. Phil. 2. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 10. whereby God is made all in all and we nothing in our selves and so one with him do partake also of the sweet savor of this sacrifice and all our praiers and petitions for our selves or intercessions for others are accepted of God and the descent of all good things spiritual and temporal from him are procured Gen. 8. 21. Jo. 14. 13. Phil. 1. 12. 4. He was the grand Eucharistical sacrifice and peace-offering answering to those typical ones under the Law In which respect the memorial which we now celebrate of his passion is called the Eucharist and in which relation we are made partakers in the Communion and admitted to eat of this sacrifice see 1 Cor. 10. 16 20. of which as a burnt or sin-offering tho these it is also Heb. 13. 11 12. we might not eat for none might eat of his own sin-offering Now the peace-offerings had many several uses in all which the sacrifice of our Savior fulfilled them 1. They were a kind of federal oblation after remission of offences procured by the sin-offering which was still offered before not after the Peace-offerings by which the sinner was as it were readmitted into Gods favour and whereas he might not eat of the sin-offering by eating part of which sacrifice being Gods bread Lev. 21. 6. -22. 25. and partaking of these holy things he was entertained at the table and accepted into the fellowship of God c. Only none that was unclean or any stranger upon peril of death might eat thereof See Lev. 22. Secondly they were offerings of thanksgiving for all the Creatures all the blessings and good things first received from God Gen. 1. 29. -9. 3. Ps. 50. 10 11 12. and continued by his word Gen. 1. 22. Deut. 8. 3. Matt. 4. 4. of which therefore both of men and beasts and fruits the choicest and first were offered and sanctified unto the Lord as his portion and tribute Sanctifie unto me all the first born both of Man and of Beast and so also it was for the first Fruits It is mine Exod. 13. 15 2. And these accordingly they offered these or their price both to shew their gratitude and acknowledgment of Gods right as to these so to all the rest Deut. 8. 18. -28. 4 5 8 11 12. -26. 2 10. Lev. 25. 23. -19. 24. and also to receive his benediction through what was offered to him upon all the rest Ezech 44. 30. Lev. 23. 11 14. Rom. 11. 16. Now according to this type Christ the substance in whom all things are fulfilled and accepted for what careth God for Oxen or other Firstlings or first fruits not only the first born of his Mother but of every Creature and likewise the first fruits Col. 1. 15 18. Rom. 8. 29. 1 Cor. 15. 20 23. was not redeemed but offered in his own person offered unto God first by whom all others were redeemed from the like And secondly by and through which offering only all our praises and thanksgivings are accepted for all things Eph. 1. 6. -3. 21. Col. 3. 17. Heb. 13. 15. Phil. 1. 11. and the right to and lawful use of them procured unto us only by this offering Rom. 14. 14. Eph. 1. 3. -4. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 5. Rom. 8. 32. And again by it as a federal oblation is the Covenant of grace and our peace ratified To the eating and partaking of which Sacrifice also in the mystical Sacrament of his Body and blood we are admitted to the worlds end And 1. By the eating of which as the Jews and also Idolaters were to the eating of theirs we are accepted in partaking of this Table to the unity Communion and fellowship with God see 1 Cor. 10. 14. c. to the 22. Only concerning which it is also provided that no unclean person or stranger unadmitted by Baptism may approach to eat thereof 1 Cor. 11. 28 29. Secondly by eating and partaking of which sacrifice excelling the other under the law in as much as it is the Body and blood of the Son of God we are admitted to Communion with the Son and mystically incorporated into him made members of his body flesh of his flesh c. And that not in a Metaphor but in a great mystery saith the Apostle Eph. 5. 32. And then from being partakers of the body become also partakers of the Spirit of Christ 1 Cor. 6. 17. And from partaking of his nature the body and the spirit of the Son of God become also Sons of God and heirs of eternal life 1 Cor. 12. 13. -6. 13 15 17. c. Eph. 5. 29. Jo. 17. 2 23. By eating and partaking of one and the same nourishment of this one Sacrifice of this one bread 1 Cor. 10. 17. we also become one Bread and have Communion with all the Saints of God as well those in Heaven as those upon earth partaking of all their glory praiers c. Heb. 12. 23. Eph. 3. 15. Eph. 2. 19. Col. 1. 20. 1 Jo. 5. 16. Job 42. 8. Gen. 20. 7 17. 2 Cor. 1. 〈◊〉 5. And hence with reference to this Sacrifice as also to the tree of life in Paradise and to the Manna and water flowing out of the Rock in the Wilderness which were types of Christ 1 Cor. 10. 2 3 4. -12. 13. Jo. 6. 32 35 49. Our Saviour is said to be the bread of life preserving him that eats the flesh of this Sacrifice so that he shall live for ever And he that eateth him shall live by him Jo. 6. 57. 6. Lastly he was the true Passover Christ our Passover is Sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. He the true paschal Lamb fulfilling that typical one of the Jews In relation to which also when this Lamb was slain it was taken care that a bone
26. Eph. 2. 3. Thus man being in his lapsed condition the Apostle makes as it were four persons sin the law and death and Satan tyrannizing over him and keeping him in an irremediable subjection possessed instead of the free loving good spirit of God with the spirit of bondage Rom. 8. 15. and of fear and of this world See sin which is called also the flesh and the old man described as a person Rom. 7. 9 11. Jam. 1. 14 15. Gen. 4. 7. 2. The law Rom. 7. 3 4. Gal. 3. 23 24. 3. Death 1 Cor. 15. 26 51. Rom. 5. 14. And they assault him in this order Sin slayes him by the dart of the law for the strength of sin is the law and death slayes him by the sting of sin for the sting of death is sin 1 Cor. 15. 56. and Satan slayes him by the hand of death As he who hath the power of death from Gods justice Heb. 2. 14. Lastly Satan having no power but from God the justice of God committeth us into the hands of this officer till we shall pay the debt of sin by the first Covenant due unto him Man being in this deplorable condition the Son of God in great pitty to his creature came to redeem him out of the hands of all these that hated him Esai 61. 1. Luk. 4. 18. Col. 1. 13. and to make him a freeman again Joh. 8. 34. comp 32 36. Gal. 4. 23. c. Gal. 5. 1. And that meanwhile justice might be satisfied and every one of the rest also have his due he put himself in our stead into their hands and paid the full ransom and price that was required not silver nor gold Ps. 49. 6 7 8 9. 1 Tim. 2. 6. 1 Pet. 1. 18 19 20. but life for life Matt. 20. 28. 1. To destroy sin in the flesh he came in the likeness of sinful flesh Rom. 8. 3. and after he had endured with the same weak nature all its assaults Heb. 2. 18. Matt. 4. 1. 16. 23. tho he did not sin yet was he made sin for us i. e. liable to undergo the ill consequents of sin as if he had sinned 2 Cor. 5. 21. 2. To satisfie the law he was made under the law also both the moral and the ceremonial in particular reference to the Jew that he might redeem them that were under the law Gal. 4. 5. most exactly keeping it in Circumcision and observation of the Sabbath tho they falsly accused him of the breach thereof and all other ordinances Yet after all this we being under its curse he also tho obedient in every thing to the law for he became a curse or accursed Gal. 3. 13. 3. Death requiring possession where sin had given it a just title and 4. Satan being not a-wanting to use his licensed power in inflicting it Luk. 22. 53. He therefore being first made sin and a curse also underwent the assaults of these two last for us underwent and tasted of death for every sinful man Heb. 2. 9. 1 Cor. 8. 11. even the death of the cross And his going thus far perchance might have served for the discharge of a debt had we been saving some trespasses past in a perfect and entire condition for the future but besides the fruit already brought forth unto death for which we owed it we were also subjected to the dominion of these enemies to bring forth more still for the future In respect of which no compleat redemption of us could be without a conquest of them as well as a payment And had our Redeemer not made a conquest of them had he been either pierced by sin or broken any point of the Law how then indeed could he have paid that death a ransom for us which had been due for himself Again not breaking these had he yet been any way held by death and Satan since tho the ransom was paid for sins past yet their dominion would have remained still in us for producing more How could he deliver us from this dominion from which he could not save himself In which terms the Devil once began to insult over him on the Cross thou that savest others c. How could he rescue us from death being himself detained in it how by his spirit in us destroy sin if that spirit could not raise him from the punishment of sin for all our spirit and life is only from and in him In whose death all our hopes were also dead 1 Cor. 15. 14. Therefore saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 15. 14 17. If Christ be not risen from death ye are yet in your sins See Rom. 4. 25. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Indeed we were not only prisoners for debt to Satan as an Officer of Gods justice Matt. 5. 25 26 but captives to him as Prince of this world and therefore our Savior was our Redeemer also in two senses from debt and from slavery by paying a ransom and by making a conquest which he throughly did For sin could not enter into him nor the law could not accuse him in any point nor could death tho it had him in its arms hold him Act. 2. 24. and so Satan also that had the power of death yet in his reviving from death was overcome Heb. 2. 14. by the power of the holy spirit raising him again from it See Rom. 1. 4. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Heb. 9. 14. Gal. 1. 4. And that he might be a pattern unto us in the way and of the victory of sufferings the manner he chose to conquer these enemies was by subjecting himself unto them and by making himself capable of their assaults and by suffering from them By comming in the likeness of sinful flesh he destroyed sin in the flesh by dying killed and triumphed over death In which Sampson slaying his enemies by his own being slain and Eliah raising the dead child by imitating the same postures were types of him Destroyed the Devils tempting by being tempted by him and in the likeness of the Serpent Numb 21. 9. Jo. 3. 14. being also made a curse like him cured the bitings of the Serpent by submitting to and most exactly keeping the law annulled it Thus he for his obedience being made Lord of the law Matt. 12. 8. and changing the ordinances delivered by Moses Jo. 4. 21. Col. 2. 13 14. Rom. 7. 24 25. Jo. 12. 31. Col 1. 13 14. and translating us out of the kingdom of darkness into his kingdom Tit. 2. 14. Redeemed us from iniquity for good works 2 Tim. 1. 10. abolished death 1 Thess. 1. 10. Delivered us out of the hands of justice Act. 13. 39. Eph. 2. 15. out of the hands of Moses's law And he triumphing first himself over them all thus set us also at liberty At liberty from them 2 Cor. 3. 17. Jo. 8. 32 36. yet not for our selves to be now our own Masters but redeemed us for his service for ever hereafter See 1 Cor. 6. 19 20. Rom. 14. 4 7.
c. Rev. 5. 9. 2 Cor. 5. 15. That we might be now espoused and appropriated to him and not yield our selves to any other whom he bought out of their hands with so dear a price for whom he paid to Gods justice so rich a Dowry as it was the ancient custome for the husband to pay not to receive a Dowry see Gen. 34. 12. Exod. 22. 16. even himself Eph. 5. 25. Tit. 2. 14. that henceforth we should glorifie him in our bodies and in our spirits which are his Tho indeed this our service of 〈◊〉 is our perfect freedom Again at liberty from them yet hitherto not absolutely Rom. 23. as neither is our Saviors conquest over them as yet perfect in respect of his members tho it be for himself See Luk. 21. 28. Eph. 4. 30. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Rom. 16. 20. Why is it not Because so it seemed good to his wisdom by and for and to whom are all things as he made not perfect the world all at once but successively nor sent this Author of redemption before the latter end thereof so neitheir to make perfect our redemption all at once For indeed had sin and consequently the law and death and Satan upon our Saviors resurrection been utterly destroyed why should not all the Faithful that were before his coming as well as we since have enjoyed the same priviledg Again thus the world must have ended at our Saviors first coming 1 Cor. 15. 26. But the compleating of our redemption is reserved to his second Luk. 21. 28. Eph. 4. 30. Eph. 1. 14. and we see not yet all things put under our Savior in this manner For it pleased God to make our Savior only the Captain and we also but this wholly thro the strength of him who is the Author and finisher of our Salvation partners in this conquest giving us arms and strength to fight them but not victory without our fighting too after the same manner as did our Savior It pleased him that we should yet a while longer suffer the assaults of sin but repel them overcome the Devil but not without being tempted and death but not without suffering it and the law but not without obedience to it Lastly that in these things we should suffer in some sort for our Savior i. e. for his honor as he did for us i. e. for our wickedness that herein all virtues might more be exercised and Gods glory thro opposition more exalted It remains then we enquire next How much of our redemption is performed already by this our Saviour First tho some sin is hitherto still inherent in us yet we are restored to the spirit of God lost by Adam Rom. 8. 23. and 1. by it commanding now within us freed from the dominion of sin for the future In which respect we are said to be dead to sin Rom. 6. 11. And 2. by the price that was paid upon the Cross freed from the guilt and imputation of sins past in the time of sins former raign in us 2. 1 Tho we are still tyed to the obedience of the law moral yet we are freed from the law Ceremonial it being only typical of the things which were fulfilled in Christ. At his death when he cried consummatum est tho before he both observed it himself and commanded it also to others see Luk. 2. 21. Matt. 10. 5. -15. 24. -8. 4 he freed us perfectly from this 2. Again freed from the condemnation of the law Moral both 1. By having our former debts to it discharged by him and so this bond that was kept against us cancelled and nayled thro upon the Cross Eph. 2. 15. Col. 2. 14. 2. And freed by grace given us from that inability we had heretofore to perform it by being now enabled to observe it in all the parts thereof tho not without some defects And there is now no sort of sin how natural how customary soever uncleanness intemperance revenge c. but we have sufficient ability thro Christ to master conquâ—…r triumph over it so as never to commit any one more consummate act thereof if we will but use those weapons the spirit affords us prayer c. Insomuch as that we shall admire upon tryal the strange transformings of our selves and the great goodness and power of Christ. â—…3 And in those deficiencies by being delivered also from the curse of it thro Christ by repentance and faith in him Act. 13. 38 39. Nay yet further freed not only from the condemning power but from the commanding and directing power of the law Mosaick not that we now are without law 1 Cor. 9. 21. but that we have it much fuller then it was before in the Tables written in our hearts by which we walking in the spirit and being filled with love do all things commanded in the law by the demonstration and power of the Spirit see those places much to be noted Gal. 5. 13. 1 Tim 1. 5 9. Gal. 3. 19. Rom. 8. 15. And thus we are said to be dead to the law or it to us Rom. 7. 4. Gal. 2. 19. Dead to the former delivery of it by the giving of which we were not able to perform it as now we are when it is given us by the spirit for the law is given twice at the first by Moses written in Tables of Stone so a killing letter afterward by the spirit written on the heart and so 't is a quickening spirit that now doth the work of the law which law abides for ever Matt. 5. 18. 2 Cor. 3. 6. see Heb. 10. 11. 2 Cor. 3. 7 8. the difference of the ministrastration of the spirit and the ministration of Moses Rom. 8. 2. 3. Tho we are still subject to death yet we are freed already from the most considerable death from that eternal and from the fear of the temporal yea we are now inviting and desiring it as an entrance into our Saviors presence and eternal bliss Nay further taking pride to conquer it the same way our Lord did and turning all the preparatives thereof diseases infirmities c. by willing patient cheerful suffering thereof into matter of advantage and reward so that we had been less happy in a greater present conquest Phil. 21 23. Again freed as our Savior was Heb. 5. 7. tho not from suffering it yet that we shall not perish in it but after a while be recovered from it Therefore harmless now it hath changed its name in the new Testament Scriptures and is called a sleep 1 Cor. 11. 30. In which respect we are said already to be passed from death to life Jo. 5. 24. 4. Tho we are still subject to the temptations of Satan yet are we freed from his former power in and over us Act. 26. 18. by the more powerful spirit of God which is now greater in us then he that is in the world 1 Jo. 4. 4. And the strong man now cast out by a
natural they yet live in like manner as from the first Adam they were heirs of death eternal See the parallel between them for life and death 1 Cor. 15. 20. and 45. c. as for sin and righteousness Rom. 5. And this life in its due time is to be communicated to all the members of Christ 1. both because the head and members have all the same spirit i. e. of the Father which therefore if it have raised one must needs also raise the other As we see in the living Creatures and the wheels Ezech. 2. 21. when those went these went and when those stood these stood for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels Or as we may imagine a man of those large Dimensions that his head were in Heaven and his feet on Earth and such is Christ and the Church Col. 2. 19. and both called by one name of Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. how easily and instantly such a one by the animal spirits communicated from the Head would move here below which way he pleased his inferior members See Rom. 8. 11. 1 Cor. 6. 14. Therefore those priviledges which the Apostle applies to Christ Heb. 2. 6. the Psalmist saith of man in general Ps. 8. And again 't is argued negatively from us to Christ If no resurrection of us then is not Christ risen neither 1 Cor. 15. 13. If not possible for the spirit to raise our human nature then not his And 2. because the head as Christ is to the Church naturally gives the sense and motion to the members Therefore as 't is said that the head and members are both raised by the same spirit so also that the Head shall raise and quicken the members See Jo. 6. 39. 1 Cor. 15. 45. 2 Cor. 4. 14. I speak of resurrection to life Else the wicked also shall be raised by him by his voice Jo. 5. 21. as their Judge to be thrown into endless torments which is but a Gaol-delivery and an haling them out of prison to execution an act of his power as God not of his merits as a Savior by their having any union to him as the second Adam And the proper Sacrament instituted to conveigh this life unto us by union with Jesus is the Eucharist being the Communion or Communication unto us of all himself first of his body and blood 1 Cor. 10. 16. by which we are made not in a Metaphor but in a Mystery and that a great one members of his body of his flesh and of his bones Eph. 5. 30 32. And 2. not only of his body but of his spirit too 1 Cor. 12. 13. by which soveraign receit and incorporating of him who hath life in himself our bodies also and souls are according to the ancient form of the Church in the administration of these mysteries preserved unto everlasting life a promise by our Savior annexed so often to this mystical partaking of him Jo. 6. 56 57. c. therefore the consecrated elements called Symbola resurrectionis and formerly never neglected especially to be received at the hour of death For 't is to be noted that tho both the Sacraments have all the same effects Remission of sins Matt. 26. 28. comp with Act. 2. 38. Union 1 Cor. 10. 16. comp with Gal. 3. 27 28. all one in Christ Jesus And Joh. 3. 5. comp with 1 Cor. 12. 13. And both Sacraments do intimate obligation to suffering to the receivers see Matt. 20. 22 23. where allusion doubtless is made to the two Sacraments as 1 Cor. 12. 13. Tho our baptism is not with blood as his nor our cup so bitter yet either of them have some more eminently then others Therefore Baptism to which we have more easy access upon repentance Act. 2. 38. and faith of the truth of the Gospel Act. 8. 37. and the promise onely of a new life Matt. 3. 6 8. is more principally the Sacrament of remission of former sins Act. 2. 38. and of our profession of our death to sin and relinquishing the old Adam and now putting on Christ. And then after this cleansing from sins past by baptism the Eucharist to which we are to bring not only faith and repentance but sanctification and holiness therefore such examination required see Matt. 22. 12. see 1 Cor. 11. 28. the end of 27. and 29. comp with 1 Cor. 6. 15. converted shall I then take the members of an â—…arlot and make them the members of Christ 1 Cor. 5. 11. converted No formcators presume to eat c. with the Saints is more specially the Sacrament of our union to Christ and living by him who is the life by the incorporating of his body and blood and spirit into ours 1 Cor. 10. 16 17. By which incorporation we contract such an identity as it were with him that see what he is we are Is he a Son of God so are we His heir So are we Rom. 8. 17. of the Kingdom the Glory to come only all this by and from him that in all things he might have the preeminence and amongst many breâ—…hren be the first born But we must know that as all these effects of our Savior toward us depend on a second generation and being born again of God by the seed of the spirit Jo. 3. 9. 2 Cor. 3. 18. Eph. 2. 22. -3. 16. which giveth life as the flesh from the first Adam soweth corruption see Gal. 6. 8. 2 Cor. 3. 6. Rom. 8. 11. Jo. 4. 14. Eph. 4. 22. and on our thus being made the true children and ofspring of Christ Heb. 2. 13. Esaâ—… 53. 10 11. So that this our second birth is not compleated all at once but this image of Christ by little and little at last is perfectly formed in us See Gal. 4. 19. 2 Cor. 11. 2. 1 Pet. 2. 2. As also all other works of our Savior are not consummate till his second coming and the resurrection Else did we walk by sight and not by faith how should we be transported with joy upon a vision of that infinite glory and nobility the poor Sons of Adam receive from this their second father to whom be all glory for ever And how should we sigh and groan till we were once possessed of it See 2 Cor. 5. 2 4. and Rom. 8. 23. To consider therefore a little the manner and the progress of our regeneration here in this life Our Savior as soon as he had died to sin as a son of Adam and lived again as a Son to God Rom. 6. 10. presently received this spirit by which he begets us promised long before and therefore frequently called the promise from the Father to communicate to his posterity see Luk. 24. 49. Act. 1. 4. -2. 33. Eph. 4. 10. Jo. 7. 39. by which spirit derived from him to us thro whom we receive all things that we receive from God as it was from his Father to him and therefore called also his spirit of Christ
of Jesus of the Son see Gal. 4. 6. 1 Pet. 1. 11. Act. 16. 7. vulg Jo. 16. 7 14. we come to be his sons Now this spirit is not given promiscuously to all the sons of the first Adam nor is all the seed of the first by God the Father's secret will in the dispensation here and there of the ministery of the Gospel and by the default of some of those that hear it therefore our Savior useth those limitations Jo. 6. 44 65. -17. 9 11 12. the seed also of the second But there is something on mans part prerequired for God having given us before in our first Creation something we may make use of in our second and besides this the external ministry of the Gospel where-we are called to grace tho creavit to sine te non salvabit te sine te to the receiving of this spirit I mean here in a more eminent degree of its operations and of our sanctification and union by it unto Christ our Lord and our incorporation and entrance into this heavenly linage And these are Faith some degree of it i. e. gladly receiving the word Act. 2. 41. called also obedience to the word see Act. 8. 12 13 37. comp v. 16. 17. Eph. 1. 13. Jo. 17. 39. not rejecting the counsel of God Luk. 7. 30. believing Gods justification of the ungodly Rom. 4. 5. and Repentance for sins past intending to live no longer in them see Heb. 6. 2. 1 Pet. 3. 21. yet which also both faith and repentance are the gift of God see Eph. 2. 8. 2 Tim. 2. 25. Act. 16. 14. tho the first cometh ordinarily by hearing where by Gods mercy the Gospel is preached Rom. 10. 17. and the second by the first Jonah 3. 5. Upon which two Christ hath appointed Baptism to be administred by his substitutes and the holy spirit at the same time by himself conferred see Jo. 7. 39. Eph. 1. 13. Gal. 3. 2 13 22. Act. 2. 38. -19. 2. -5. 32. Luk. 11. 13. First then at our Baptism upon faith and repentance Ps 45. 10. we begin to be born again of water and of the spirit but not so as presently quite cashiering the image of the former Adam but as being now a compound of an old man and a new or of a body and soul from Adam called the flesh and of a spirit from Christ I mean not that contradistinguished to the soul 1 Thess. 5. 23. where by the spirit seems to be meant the rational Intellective part or soul see 1 Cor. 2. 11. Act. 7. 59. Luk. 23. 46. By soul the 〈◊〉 and sensitive part or soul which is also used for to signify life but I mean a spirit superadded to this natural spirit See 1 Cor. 14. 14 2. where there is a spirit in us plainly distinguished from the natural faculty of the understanding which operated when the understanding was quiescent see v. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See Rev. 1. 10. 1 Cor. 12. 10. c. the spirit of man being the soul of a natural man besides which the Apostles had another spirit searching all things c. as Christ also is compounded of two natures the Human and Divine Act. 10. 38 yet is the one of these dying in us by degrees as the other grows and we are putting off mortifying crucifying the one and putting on and renewing the other day by day Rom. 6. 6. Col. 3. 5. Gal. 6. 14. 2 Cor. 4. 16. Rom. 12. 2. Eph. 4. 22 23 24. whilst there is a perpetual combate between them The spirit lusting against the flesh and the flesh against the spirit Gal. 5. 17. until we are perfected which is not attained in this life Yet here the elder man is serving the younger provided that we do not wither and fall away from grace and dy again to God And by reason of this double outward and inward man that is in us it is that the Apostles where they tell us that we are dead to sin c. yet exhort us also to dy to sin see Rom. 6. 2. comp 12. 1 Pet. 4. 1. comp 1 Pet. 2. 11. and that the Saints where they give thanks do also pray for a deliverance Now in this our renovation made by certain steps and degrees this spirit derived from Christ operateth and produceth the image of Christ first in our soul and then afterward in our body After the same manner as it was in Christ himself who first had grace in his soul with passibility in his body till he died after which that also was glorified by the same spirit Here therefore it begins in this life by its mighty working Col. 1. 29. 2 Cor. 9. 14 15. to transform and renew us Rom. 12. 2. Eph. 4. 13. Gal. 2. 19 20. Eph. 3. 16 17. Phil. 1. 21. residing here after faith and repentance which are certain preludium's and foregifts also of it See Matt. 16. 17. 1 Cor. 12. 3. 1 Jo. 4. 2. and are increased in us proportionably as it is bringing all its rich graces with it mentioned 1 Cor. 12. 3 8. c. 1. Illuminating and inspiring and renewing knowledge in the understanding in vain without it sought by us any other way therefore called the spirit of truth see Jo. 16. 13. 1 Cor. 2. 10. c. 2 Pet. 1. 21. 1 Jo. 2. 20 27. and of prophecy Rev. 9. 10. -12. 17. 1 Jo. 5. 10. 2. Sanctifying the will and affections Therefore called the spirit of holiness first quenching there all worldly desires and satiating the soul instead of them see Jo. 7. 37 39. -4. 14. 2. Begetting an ardent and unsatiable love of God and fervency of praier and obedience to all his commands written by it in our hearts out of love such as was in Christ. Matt. 5. 6. Ps. 40. 8. Rom. 5. 5. 2 Tim. 1. 7. 2 Cor. 3. 6 7. Rom. 8. 26 27. 3. Producing greater joy in and desire of sufferings In imitation of our Savior for his for Gods for the truths sake which truth this spirit seals unto us 1 Thess. 1. 6. Rom. 5. â—… Heb. 10. 34. Act. 5. 41. Phil. 1. 29. 2 Cor. 12. 10. Col. 1. 11. 2 Cor. 11. 23. I more his Minister c. 2 Cor. 5. 14. Lastly comforting alwaies by begetting a lively hope by witnessing to us what we are and sealing what we shall be Gal. 5. 5. 1 Pet. 1. 3. Jo. 16. 17. Rom. 8. 16. 2 Thess. 2. 16. Gal. 4. 6. 1 Jo. 3. 24. Eph. 1. 13. All which graces now are the image of Christ stamped on the soul called partaking of his holiness Heb. 12. 10. and being created after God in righteousness Eph. 4. 24. But yet this image of or union with our Savior in the soul is not perfect neither in this life therefore called first fâ—…uits only of the spirit and tast of the heavenly gifts and the powers of the world to come an earnest and seal of something to be had more fully hereafter
23. and as his glory so his sufferings in as much as part of hers are yet behind are said not to be yet compleat Col. 1. 24. And so he is said now to love the Church to nourish and cherish her out of the love he bears to himself for none ever hated his own flesh Eph. 5. 28. Especially the head in which are placed the senses for the good and defence of the whole body that is most sensible of any thing that happens unto it see Act. 9. 4. and more watchful in providing for it Therefore is this his love to her noted to be greater a more merciful faithful compassionate love from his being the second Adam and undergoing the experience of like infirmity then the blessed Angels or as he as God was if I may so say capable of See Heb. 2. 17 18. We being now the travail of his soul Esai 53. 11. for whom he endured the birth-throes of death Act. 2. 24. and therefore he as a pained mother the more loves us according to his sufferings for us Whose strait and intimate connexion and tye unto us in respect of this his second Adam-ship the Holy Ghost in the Scriptures hath expressed in all the nearest and dearest relations that can easily be fancied styling him and us In a new Creation or Regeneration where Christ is all in all Col. 3. 11. as Adam in the former Father and Children He being made after the perfect image of God and we after his He heir and Lord of all things and we by him who having lost our former title to the Creatures by the fall of Adam and upon this the use of many of them restrained have now a new right established thro him They being sanctified as it were now again by a new word of God in this new Creation as they were in the first and both thro Christ by which they are all free all clean upon prayer thanksgiving and alms to all his seed tho still unclean to all the rest See Rom. 14. 14. 1 Tim. 4. 3. Tit. 1. 15. Rom. 4. 14. Heb. 2. 5. Luk. 11. 41. 1 Cor. 3. 21 23. -7. 14. comp Tit. 3. 5. See Col. 1. 15. Rev. 3. 14. Heb. 1. 2 3. Heb. 2. 5. Gal. 6. 15. Rom. 8. 29. 2 Cor. 5. 17. Eph. 2. 10. Eph. 4. 24. Col. 3. 10. Esai 9. 6. -53. 10 11. Heb. 2. 13. Jo. 3. 3 4. Ps. 22. 30. Husband and Spouse A priviledge and relation to the Son of God which we shall have beyond the blessed Angels a similitude of nature being only capable of this For where are the Angels called the Bride the Lambs wife See Rev. 21. 9. Eph. 5. 25. c. 1 Cor. 6. 13 15. c. In which relation we are said to be members of Christ not only as the Hands or Feet are of the body natural but as Eve was of Adam of his flesh and of his bones and to be one spirit with Christ as Adam and Eve were one flesh Of which espousal and union of the Church with Christ the institution of marriage was but a figure and type And Adams saying to new made Eve This is now made bone c. Gen. 2. 23. but a prophecy And her being made out of Adams side but an allegory of the Churches springing out of Christs side pierced on the Cross so much observed by St. John Jo. 19. 34 35. 1 Jo. 5. 8. That water and blood which came from thence first begetting Jo. 3. 5. and then nourishing Jo. 6. 35. the Church his Spouse And mans being made head of the woman but an emblem of Christs being Head of the man 1 Cor. 11. 3. that is of mankind his spouse whom according to the ancient custome of not receiving a dowry with but paying one for the Virgin Gen. 34. 13. Exod. 22. 16. Christ is said to have bought with a dear price 1 Cor. 6. 20. even by giving himself for her Eph. 5. 25. that hereafter she should be wholly for him But yet tho she is betrothed already by the pledge of the spirit yet the marriage is not consummate nor to be celebrated but in Paradise where the first was This second Eve being as yet but in the forming as it were out of a crooked Rib by the hand of God Gen. 2. 21 22. in cleansing and purifying and making white forgetting her own people and her Fathers house Ps. 45. 10. so reproachful unto her future splendors c. that she may be presented at that day not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing a chast Virgin c. See 2 Cor. 11. 2. Eph. 5. 27. in dressing and putting on her wedding Garments that she may not be found naked as upon her fall she was in Paradise See 2 Cor. 5. 3. Rev. 3. 18. Rev. 19. 7 8. -16. 5. Matt. 22. 11. Head and Members This every where occurring Root and Branches The new stock into which we are ingrafted and planted by Baptism see Jo. 15. 1. c. Rom. 6. 3 4 5. -11. 17. -15. 12. Foundation and Building built up a Temple to be no more profaned and defiled 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. 1 Cor. 3. 16 17. 1 Cant. 8. 9 10. Rev. 21. 9. 10. Eph. 2. 20 21. and Christ the Corner stone in whom the two side-walls of Jew and Gentile are joined Eph. 2. 14 15. Elder and younger Brethren in respect of God our common Father Jo. 20. 17. The honor of which we shall the more value when we consider such a a contemptible Prodigal upon this relation only so royally entertained Luk. 15. Called also the first born consecrated to God for the rest The first fruits which under the law represented the whole Rom. 11. 16. 1 Cor. 15. 20. Rom 8. 29. Hence all thing done by him from these relations we have to him are said also to be done by us received by him to be received by us done to him to be done to us and done to us to him So we now dead to sin Rom. 6. 1. To the law Rom. 7. 4. Col. 2. 20. To the world the affections to it Gal. 6. 14. Now risen Col. 3. 1. now ascended and sitting in heavenly places Eph. 2. 6. Sons of God Heirs Gal. 3. 27. See Matt. 25. 40 45. Hence all Gods promises are fulfilled unto him first in his human nature and then descend only from and thro him to us And all that we return blessings prayer c. ascend and are acceptable only thro him and for his sake to God Eph. 1. 6. -3. 21. But we must know in this our new Creation and parentage that we being once created in all the business of our Salvation as God worketh in us so we work together with God that there is a concatenation and conspiring of Gods grace and our will That as this new image of God is formed in us by his spirit so by our endeavors and that there is a configuration as effected by him so
commemoration of him how much more in that above is it solemnized for us by himself our High Priest That as the bow was set in the Cloud that God looking upon it might remember his Covenant and forbear to bring a second deluge upon the earth Gen. 9. 16. and the blood of the Paschal Lamb was stricken on the door posts that the Lord seeing it there might pass over them with his plague So when he beholds these wounds given our Savior for our sin displaid before him he may forbear to revenge sin any more upon his Brethren And if Pilate shewing that our suffering Savior with an Ecce Homo thought the beholding such a pitiful and cruel spectacle was enough to have melted the hardhearted Jews his malicious enemies into some mercy and compassion so as to prosecute his death no further How much more will such a pale and wanner sight as was seen afterward upon the Cross of an only Son voluntarily undergoing all this for our sin move a pitiful and merciful father no further to prosecute the vengeance thereof upon his brethren upon his own members A second Action there is sprinkling of his blood upon and before the Mercy-Seat not 7 nor 77 times but continually and note that all blood-shed when it comes before the Lord hath a loud cry See the blood of the Saints Rev. 6. 10. And Abels Gen. 4. 10. And the Apostle compares the sprinkling of our Saviors blood for its speaking and crying unto the sprinkling of Abel's tho His cried not the same way for it pleaded for mercy as the other for vengeance For we receive a true attonement are sanctified are purifyed as many of us as serve the Lord by the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus See 1 Pet. 1. 2. Heb. 12. 24. -13. 12. Not that our Savior there really sprinkled his blood for us let none grossly imagine this for flesh and blood enter not into heaven 1 Cor. 15. but that he now by it poured out by him on the Cross in the heavenly Sanctuary procures all the effects obumbrated by the former sprinkling of the blood of the legal Sacrifices Therefore t is observed that the Apostle saith he entred by it not with it Heb. 9. 12 23. Who is therefore called for this Celestial ceremony before the propitiatory or throne of grace our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 propitiation 1 Jo. 2. 2. and our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 propitiatory Rom. 3. 25. Thus he sprinkled his blood to make attonement for and to sanctify us but as we read that the legal High Priest purified also the Sanctuary it self and reconciled the Holy place said to be defiled by being in the midst of the peoples uncleanness See Lev. 18. 25 28. the Apostle makes this also run parallel for our Savior Heb. 9. 23. by which as is signifyed the purifying of all the Creatures and particularly of all our imperfect holy services unto us so perhaps something more may yet be gathered from Col. 1. 16 20. -2. 10. Job 15. 15. -4. 18. -25. 5. 2 Pet. 3. 7 12. Rom. 8. 22. well considered for all Principalities and Thrones i. e. Angels were made by him at first and for him and by him they now consist and of them also he is the head and by him they are said to be reconciled thro him they are now confirm'd in grace and perhaps at the last day thro him shall be advanced in glory And perhaps the upper regions of the world may be said in some sense to be contaminated as the earth by mans or the faln Angels sin to which heavenly things also the vanity bondage groaning of the Creatures mentioned Rom. 8. may extend which also are said by Peter to be reserved and that they shall be dissolved and as it were purified by fire But abscondita Domino Deo nostro manifesta nobis 3. After this appearing there with this Sacrifice and sprinkling of his blood follows his Intercession also there for us Rom. 8. 34. Heb. 7. 25. Esai 53. 12. -59. 16. another office of the Priest for the People whose making attonement was not without praier since this also is called making attonement Exod. 32. 30. and so where we translate making attonement the vulgar renders it praying for c. See Lev. 16. 7 34 17. Quando Pontifex sanctuarium ingreditur ut roget prose pro universo coetu Israel see Job 42. 8. Gen. 20. 7. which appears also by the continual practise of the Priests and Prophets praying foâ—… the people Jer. 7. 16. -27. 18. Ezra 10. 4. Joel 1. 13 14. -2. 17. 2 Chron. 30. 27. 1. And this first in presenting continually his own praiers to the Father for us in which respect he is called also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Advocate with the Father as well as the Holy Ghost is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Advocate to the Father here on earth with or in us As the spirit is also stiled by his title of Intercessor here as he there Rom. 8. 26 27. and therefore what office in prayer when any one sins or suffers this Advocate doth here on earth residing with us 1 Jo. 5. 7 8. see Rom. 8. 26. the other Advocate doth the same in heaven residing with the Father and with the same unexpressible zeal The better to conceive which imagine Aaron Numb 16. 47. when wrath was gone out from the Lord standing with his Censer in his hand between the living and the dead and staying the plague or Moses that great type of him Deut. 18. 15. like unto me his pathetical intercessions and deprecations so many times for the sinning Israelites continuing 40 daies at a time with the Lord in supplication for them and for their Priest see Exod. 32. comp with Deut. 9. 18 20. Numb 14. 13. c. and proceeding even to wishing himself accuâ—…ed in their stead as also did St. Paul but our Savior only was he that really became also a curse for others and then be sure our High Priest now makes the same nay far greater as much more concerned in our safety being Master over the house in which Moses tho a faithful yet was but a servant The exact matter and manner of whose intercessions above tho it is not manifested unto us yet what esteem of it and confidence in it may we not have therefore our Mother the Church thinks fit to finish all her prayers in it if we consider first that infinite love wherewith he now loveth us How can it be silent Eph. 3. 19. from which neither things present nor things to come neither heights nor depths c. can ever separate us Rom. 8. 38 35. comp with 34. 2. The promises which he made in that last comforting Sermon immediately before his death and departure from hence the summ of which is to assure his Disciples and consequently all believers see Jo. 17. 20. of the great care he would take for them in heaven where also he particularly
Abraham and the glad tidings he brought him in them of that coming which the Jews then yet without rejoycing as Abraham beheld And might not Abraham be said thus to see his glory as well as Esai it must be granted did 2. And next the descent of the Lord in the times of Noah how like is it to this in Abraham's time before the firing of Sodom And his conference with and complaint to Noah see Gen. 6. 3 7 8 12 13. -7. 1 16. and his promises to him and Covenant with him and his seed Gen. 6. 18. -9. 9. c. to those with Abraham And his preserving of Noah with his family and his shutting them up in the Ark Gen. 7. 16. to his delivering of Lot and his leading him forth by the hand And his causing it to rain those miraculous waters by opening the windows of heaven and springs of the deep Gen. 7. 4 11. to the fiery rain upon Sodom and how well do these agree with that expression 1 Pet. 3. 19 So that it seems without doubt these two of the firing of Sodom and of the flood and that of drowning the Egyptians in the Red sea with the salvation of Noah Lot and Israel being the 3 grand types to the world of the last great judgment to come see 2 Pet. 2. 5 6. Jude 5. 7. that they were executed by the same hand see 2 Pet. 2. 5 6. Luk. 17. 26 28. that the other shall be even the Son of God to whom the Father for ever hath committed all mercy and judgment 3. The same person it seems to be that first wrestled with as he doth in afflictions with all the pious and then blessed Jacob Gen. 32. 24. That appeared to and was adored by Joshuah Josh. 5. 13. 14 15. comp Exod. 3. 5. To Gideon Judg. 6. 22. To Manoah Judg. 13. 15. c. all which may be gathered from the arguments forementioned And I can call to mind in the sacred story only 2 apparitions or visions which certainly appear to be of God the Father That of the Ancient of dayes Dan. 7. 9. comp 13. and Rev. 4. 2. comp c. 5. 5. 4. Lastly he was the Angel that conducted the Church in the wilderness as is shewed above and by consequence that gave them the law in Mount Sinai for tho the law is said to be given by the disposition and promulgation of Angels Act. 7. 53. Gal. 3. 19. Heb. 2. 2. multitudes of whom appeared in the Mount Deut. 33. 2. Psal. 68. 17. by whom those voices were formed in the Air. Heb. 2. 2. In which speaking of the law to the people the Angels were Mediators as afterward in receiving from the Angel and carrying the law to them Moses was Gal. 3. 19. which is taken notice of several times in the new Testament to shew the preeminence of the Gospel since the law was delivered to men by the intermediation of Angels and Moses Servants and Ministers but the Gospel by the mediation of his only Son made flesh that he might familiarly converse with man without those terrors that accompanied the law yet the supreme Legislator was God Deut. 33. 2. Exod. 20. 1. Exterior loquela Angelorum interior Dei per Angelum and that the Son the eternal word and Vicegerent of the Father called the Angel Act. 7. 38. that spoke with Moses upon the Mount from whom he received the law written with his finger the same Angel that appeared in the bush vers 35. that conducted them in the cloud Which soveraign Legislator for the glorifying of his Father and the saving of man humbled himself afterward to become Himself the Mediator The type of which mediation of his Moses then was both in delivering the will of God to the people coming down to them from the Holy place in the Mount and also ascending and interceding forty daies to God for the people Deut. 9. 18 25 26. As he since hath both descended in flesh from the bosom of the Father to declare and reveal all his will to us Jo. 1. 18. who only saw his face but Moses only his back-parts and in whose face the glory of the Gospel shone as of the law in Moses his face see 2 Cor. 4. 6. comp 3. 7. and is ascended again to the Father to intercede for us this Real Moses remembring him not of our righteousness c. but of the promise he made to them of the blessed sced Dâ—…ut 9. 27. and of the triumph the spiritual and temporal enemies of God would make over the deserted tho most worthy to be deserted Church vers 28. By whose prayers and intercessions it now standeth and shall stand for ever Amen Thus much that the Government of the Church of God also under the old Testament was by the Son of God Next for the Holy Ghost The operations also of Holiness in men under the old Testament was by the same spirit By it then Regeneration Gal. 4. 29. and our Saviour wondred at a Doctor in Israel Jo. 3. 10. that he was ignorant of it Tho therefore Christ not yet ascended and this Holy Spirit not then received and poured out in so full a measure upon all flesh yet as of the Son the Author so of the Holy Spirit the promise of the Gospel there were made some predescents in the old Testament Esai 63. 10 11. Nehem. 9. 30. Zech. 4. 6. some sprinklings and drops of those large effusions which have been poured out in the latter daies and of almost all those several kinds of its rich graces mentioned 1 Cor. 12. c. some first fruits as it were and samplars we find in the Ancient Church of God The spirit of wisdom eminent in Solomon 1 King 3. 12. and Exod. 31. 3. The power of miracles eminent in Moses Elijah Elishah and in these a specimen of almost all sorts of them that are exhibited in the new Command over the waters Exod. 14. 21. 2 King 2. 8. fire 2 King 1. 10. Dan. 3. 27. Air 1 King 18. 44. The Heavens Josh. 10. 12. The multiplying of oyl meal bread like that of our Saviours 1 King 17. 14. 2 King 4. 6 43 44. The Resurrection 1 King 17. 21. 2 King 4. 34. -8. 5. The Ascension in Enoch and Elijah Pentecost in the spirit descending upon his Disciple Elisha from ascending Elijah the type of Christ. Gifts of healing 2 King 5. 10. -4. 41. -2. 19. Esai 38. 21. Prophecy that called the proper season of the Prophets Helps in Government see the operations of the spirit upon Joshua and the Judges of Israel and the 70 Elders Interpretation of tongues and hearts too of dreams c. eminent in Joseph and Daniel see Dan. 5. 12 25. Only one the gift of tongues we find reserved as a property to the Gospel upon the enlarging of the Church from one before at this time to all nations and languages We find this Holy Spirit also represented of old both in
the Tabernacle and the Temple in those 7 lamps of the 7 branched candlestick as also in the first descent upon the Apostles it appeared in a flame or tongue of fire Act. 2. 1. see Exod. 25. 40. comp Rev. 4. 5. and 5. 6. and Zech. 4. 10 2. comp 6. We find it then poured upon Moses in type of Christ and from him portions of it derived upon the 70 Elders Numb 11. 18. c. whose sudden prophecying upon it became then also as in the Acts a wonder to the people vers 27. 28. as it was from Christ upon the Apostles and so many thousands ever since and shall be on others to the end of the world Jo. 1. 16. Eph. 4. 17. We find it then conferred upon the extraordinary Captains of Gods people exciting them to heroick actions Joshuah Numb 26. 16 18. Gideon Judg. 6. 34. Jephtah Judg. 11. 29. Samson Judg. 13. 25. Giving him corporal strength a type of that spiritual which it now bestows upon the Saints as illuminating and sanctifying so strengthning and giving courage and comfort in afflictions this being a special operation of this divine Agent Therefore one attribute Esai 11. 2. is spirit of might and in the new Testament Comforter Upon Saul and David presently upon their anointing by which they were changed and became new men 1 Sam. 10. 6. -16. 13. see its inspiration of the holy writers Moses David the Prophets Matt. 22. 43. Heb. 8. 9. -3. 7. Mark 12. 36. Act. 7. 51. Luk. 2. 26. Act. 1. 16. 1 Cor. 2. 13. It s wonderful operations upon the sons of the Prophets whereby they were put at certain times into wonderful extasies and raptures like those under the Gospel Act. 10. 10. -22. 17. -9. 9. comp 12. 2 Cor. 12. 2 7. into strange and unusual actions and agitations of their bodies 2 Sam. 6. 14. Psal. 26. 6. 2 King 4. 35. -2. 16. -9. 11. 1 King 18. 12. Ezra 3. 12 14. see the like Matt. 4. 1. Act. 8. 39. -20. 22. -16. 7. -18. 5. So violent that Saul in their society possessed with the same is said to have stript himself of his clothes i. e. his upper garment and to have lain down all night unclothed being wearied withose strange motions c. perhaps Psal. 149. 3. meant of this They in these raptures not foretelling things to come 2 King 2. 3 5. but conceiving and on a sudden after an unusual manner dictating psalms songs the praises of God or explanation of some mystery or former prophecy See 1 Sam. 18. 10. 1 King 18. 29. 1 Chron. 25. 3. comp 1 Cor. 11. 5. And the spirit then as now did more ordinarily inspire persons first by their profession consecrated to God Jo 11. 51. prepared by studies and exercises of devotion in Schools for this purpose amongst which means was composing the spirits by musick 1 Sam. 10. 5. -16. 16. Ps. 43. 4. 2 King 3. 15. Some of the singers Prophets Asaph c. There being many Colledges of them in several places Naioth Bethel Hiericho inhabited by great numbâ—…rs See 2 King 2. 3 5 7. -4. 38. so the Levites that were the singers were also spiritual composers of holy psalms 1 Chron. 25. 2 5. 2 Chron. 29. 30. And many of the Prophets were Priests or Levites Samuel Ezekiel Jeremy And now also that the miraculous graces of the spirit are someway both procured and improved by industry study prayer faith expecting and desiring to receive them seems to appear from 1 Cor. 12. 31. -14. 1. Rom. 12. 6. 1 Tim. 4. 13 14. 2 Tim. 1. 6. 1 Pet. 11. 10 11 12. And this may serve to shew that the Ancient world were not unacquainted with the operations of the spirit and in some measure pretasted this promise of the latter daies which wrought in all times after the same manner and came then also from the same Author the Lord Christ see 1 Pet. 1. 11. -3. 19. 2 Pet. 1. 21. 1 Cor. 12. 5. Only now its illuminations are greater under the Gospel Matt. 11. 11. Jo. 16. 13. and further extended even to all flesh amongst whom it continues all its rich gifts For we must not make the times of Christ inferior to those of the law nor the times of the making of the promises to be perfecter then those of their accomplishment Thus much of the energyes and actings of the Holy Ghost in men under the old Testament as well as under the new And accordingly there hath been alwaies the same Covenant of Grace the same faith in and by the Son and Holy Spirit Gal. 3. 8 17. c. and the same Sacraments 1 Cor. 10. 2 3. from the beginning To shew which things somewhat more punctually and particularly First Gods prescience seeing mans use of his Free-will and his fall foreordained our Saviour before the foundation of the world tho he manifested him not till the last times 1 Pet. 1. 20. And presently after the fall out of overflowing mercy in the very curse he delivered also the cure of it and condemned the seducer of man to be destroyed by the then first promised seed of the woman i. e. Christ who also immediatly was the seed of the woman only whom Satan first seduced that he might be destroyed also by the same instrument i. e. woman by which he thought to destroy man Upon the multiplying of this seed we find accordingly because the promise of God did not take effect in all the seed see Rom. 9. 6. c. Gal. 4. 26. c. we find in that infancy of the world the same distinction of men as now noted indeed by the Apostle more expressly of Abrahams double seed Gal. 4. 22. but as true of Adams and of all the times since the beginning as likewise those other remarks that are made upon them Gal. 4. 29. Rom. 9. 12. that the elder should first persecute at last serve the younger we find then one generation after the flesh another after the spirit one of old Adam involved in no covenant but that of works and by those being evil loosing the heavenly inheritance the other of the promise and attaining it by faith And these we find called the sons of God which none are but by Christ. Gen. 5. 2. The other sons of men or in opposition to the former sons of the wicked one the devil 1 Jo. 3. 10 12. In which respect the wicked Jews seem to be reckoned as the spiritual race or succession of Cain since Abels blood is required of them Matt. 23. 35 36. Jo. 8. 44. God and the Divel being the two spiritual fathers of the progeny of man Jo. 8. 42. c. The one pilgrims on the earth Heb. 11. 13. The other men of this world noted for their building of Cities as Cain Gen. 4. 17. and Nimrod Gen. 10. 8 9 10. not so the others The city and type of the one Babylon called confusion and of the other Jerusalem intimating peace and unity
The one having a confusion of languages amongst them The other retaining as proper to them the first language of paradise called afterward the Hebrew from Heber in whose time the earth was divided and afterward amongst his multiplied posterity adhering only to Abrahams race And of the former of these there was a Church of God erected from the beginning which had Gods more special presence in the same land where paradise was Gen. 4. 16. Which Church seems from Matt. 19. 4 8. comp Gen. 6. 1 2. and 4. 19. and Mal. 2. 15. to have been then restrained both from polygamy and marrying with the unbelievers which matching with them afterwards was cursed with a gigantick and consequently tyrannous ofspring like that of Cain's the wicked generation Gen. 6. 4. -4. 23 24. and of which matching after the flood Abraham and the Patriachs had much abhorrence doubtless because the worship and fear of the true God was not among them See Gen. 20. 11. -24. 3. -27. 24. From which wicked Cain was excommunicated and banished whose murthering of his brother may be guessed by the way of Cain being joyned with the gainsaying of Core Jude 11. to hav been not only out of envy to him because his sacrifice was more accepted but out of emulation for his being some way or other more specially preferred in the ministration also of the divine worship and his race proved like him full of violence murders many wives c. Gen. 4. 23 24. -6. 11. see Gen. 4. 3 12 14 16. Amongst these sons of God Abel was the first recorded in the Heb. c. 11. declared there to be righteous or justifyed and accepted of God by faith and that faith was that God was a rewarder of all those that diligently seek him vers 6. which is a faith in Gods promises and a faith of things not seen vers 1. a faith therefore of promises not yet attained and indeed why else his blood cry after death vers 4. how else did he and the rest dy in faith vers 13. if not something hoped for after death viz. the restoring of that paradise which was lost see vers 16 26 39. and the restoring of life again to the innocent as well as future vengeance on the oppressor Righteous Abel slain by him that was born after the flesh that God might shew in the first Saint the lot of his Church here on earth Seth is given in his stead the Father of the holy race said to be begotten in Adams image as Adam was in the likeness of God Gen. 5. 1 2 3. which is not said of the former issue it may be with reference to restoring of man in Christ to the image in which God created Adam Col. 3. 10. Eph. 2. 10. And born after long expectation first as Abrahâ—…m's son of promise was Adam being 130 years old before he had this seed that was appointed by God instead of Abel Gen. 5. 3. -4. 25. After him Enos who comparing Gen. 4. 26. with 2 Pet. 2. 5. was the first more publick preacher of righteousness as Noah was the eighth The fifth after him Enoch a Prophet Jude 14. and after a singular manner pious who served God out of faith that he was a rewarder of the diligent seekers of him and accordingly received that reward in an anticipated translation that the times before the law might in him have a type of the advancement of the promised seed and an example of the promised reward to all beleevers thro him as those under the law had in Elias and those under the Gospel saw in the seed it self See Heb. 11. 5 6. The eighth preacher of righteousness was Noah And here in the tenth generation from Adam the world that then was was to be as this second also shall be for its wickedness destroyed but after first the preaching to them by Christ 1 Pet. 3. 19. i. e. by the spirit of Christ 1 Pet. 1. 11. the same Gospel which is preached to us viz. that as Christ was in the appointed time put to death in the flesh but quickned in the spirit so they might be judged and be put to death or become dead in the flesh according to the former will and lusts of men and be quickned in the spirit according to the will of God See 1 Pet. 4. 6. comp vers 1 2. and 1 Pet. 3. 18 19. 2 Pet. 8. 9. At which time the world after this preaching of the Gospel unto them and the long-suffering of God 1 Pet. 3. 20. for an 120 years Gen. 6. 3. still continuing disobedient and being to be destroyed by water the type of the end of it to come by fire we find the first express mention of a Covenant established with Noah and his seed Gen. 6. 18. where my not a seems to me to imply the continuation not the beginning of a Covenant in which God makes a promise to save him in this ark of the Covenant and to bless the earth unto him which was cursed for sin and then should have been destroyed Gen. 6. 13. Which also his Father at his birth prophecyed of him Gen. 5. 29. and to regive to him and his seed the dominion of the world which after the flood he gives him the possession of see Gen. 9. 1. c. And this promise we find made to Noah almost in the same terms that we nâ—…d not doubt of the same thing intended by it as it was afterward to Abraham that he also should be the heir of the world Rom. 14. 13. c. so also of Noah as of Abraham 't is said that he became heir of the righteousness which is by faith Heb. 11. 7. that is heir of the benefits thereof promised unto him And the promise was one and the same from the beginning first of the coming into the world of the promised seed which is already fulfilled and then of the restoring of man first in and then by the promised seed to the inheritance which he forfeited by Adams fall which inheritance was 1. a right both to the earth and the creatures therein which since Adams fall none have right to before God but only thro Christ. 2. And more specially to the heavenly country and city Heb. 11. 16. called also entring into Gods rest Heb. 4. 6. c. that yet to come vers 7 8 9. In the presignification of which rest to come the Sabbath was appointed from the beginning to be observed with rest c. see Heb. 4. 3 9 10. after the 6 daies labour of this world and after our deliverance from the persecutions of Egypt that is all whatever the Churches enemies For because both these are the same in the substance therefore was it instituted as a symbole of both see Exod. 31. 17. Gods work in the creation after which he is said to be refreshed being a type of his work in the redemption of the world and in the Elect from which also being perfected