. •7.+•/ The Corruption ~fthe l.Jiill. State If. :·-~ .:a.,{d receive the kingdom of Chrill: within them. His crown is the crown whenwith hiJ mother crowned hi?iz i~ the J,zy of hi! efpoufah. ·who ue they whom the P<?Wer of gra.ce has. not fu k 1ued, that ,will allow him to fet up and to put down, in their fouls, as he will? Nay, , as for others, any · Jord fhall fooner get the n~le over them, 'than the Lor'd of ltlory: they kindly entertain his enemies, and will never abfolutely refign the~n'felves to his govet ninent, till con- · quered in a day of power. Thus ye may fee, that the na– tural man is an .enemy to Jefus·Ch rifr in all his offices. ·But 0! how hard is it to convince men in this point .? They are very loth to take with it. -And in a fpecial man– ner, the enmity of the heart again!l: Cbri!t in his priefily– Qffiet:,. feetns to be hid from the view of moH: of the hearers of the gofp,el : yet th'ere appears to be a pec~liar malignity jn corrupt nature ag~inll: that office of his~ It may be ob– fel v.ed, that the Socinians, thefe enemies of •our bleffed Lord, aiJ.ow. him to be properly a propbet and a king, but deny him to be properly a priefl, And this is agreeable (',nough to .the conuption of our nat.ure; for, under the covenant of works., the Lord .was kn:own as· a pr(jph~t or teacher, ahd aJ fo as, a king or ru.l.er ; •hut not at all as a pr.iefi : fo,man knows nothing of th~ myfl ery of Chr.ifi, as ' t'he way to the Fath.er, ttil , it be revealed to him. And when it is 'tevealed, the will rifeth up againfi it; for cor- , · ruin nawr.e liea crofs to the myftery of Chrift, and the great contri~~mce of falvation through a·cruCified Sav,iour, reveal– ed in the gofpel. For c!e:uiQg Qf Jwhicl1 weighty truth, let thefe four things be con.fidered. Firjl, The fqul's falling in with the grand devjce offal– vation by Jefus Chrift, and fetti.ng the matters of falvation Qn thjlt footing before the Lord, . is decla1 ed .by the fcrip– tures of trutb, to be an undQubted mark of a real fainr, ,who is happy h.ere, and lhall be happy hereafter, Matth. ,xi. 6. An(lf(ejfed i.r he whofoever Jh,all not be offended in me. . 1 Cor. i. ~3, 24· But we preach Chrifl cructjied. un- · ' to the ]ew1 a flumhling·hfock, imd ,unt~ the GreekrfoQ/– ijhnefl : but unto them which are called, both JewJ and Greflu ; (;hrifl, the power ofGad, anti th~ wifdom ofGod./ Phdip. iii. 3· For ,we ar;. the circumci.Jion _which rwor/hip J.'od in the Spirit~ anrJ re-jo~ce in. Cbrifi Jifu.t, anihave n'-· .
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