-- Chap,3· Sect, I, JLrokmg unto jjcfttS'. Book r. 9 ;;, i{zl;lVledge ~dgcment ; ( i.e.) in knowledge and feeling. . ~nd cmai~ly t_his fi:e lino, this r.qerimentallook,tng on {efm IS that my text anus at; lt IS not a lw•mnung knowledoe of Chrift . but an heany feeling of Chrifts inward workings; it is not heady n;rions of C..hrift, but hearty motions towards Chri!t that are implied in this inward /ook,ing. z. For rhe objed:, you muft look on {efm. J It is the ble!fed'!t objed: that the eye of rhe mind can poflibly fix upen; of all objetts under heaven, Jefu< bath the prehemi– ncnce in perfection , a11.,d he Jhould have the preheminence in our medirario~. It is he rhat will make us. mjlft happy when ~e. poffefs lum, and _we cannot bur be Joyfnil to loo~ upon hi:", efpwatly. when loo'<.!ng IS a degree of po!fefhng. --.{eft«, for the name fiomfies Savtour. 1t 1s an Hebrew name; the Greeks borrowed u from the He– brews, 0the Latines ~~~m the Greeks, and all other languages from the Latines : It is ufedtivehundred rimes in Pauls Epi!Hes, faith Genebrard; it comes from the Hebrew word rehojhua, or Jojlma, which in the bo_oks of E:-ra and N chcmiah ( ~ritten afi:er Ezra s. 1 : the Bab)'loniancapuv1ty ) IS Jejl~~ta, and fo ts our Savtours Name always wnrten m the Nchcm. 8.17· Syriack rranflauon of the newTellament. Tlus name Jefmwas !\1ven to Chnfl the Son of God by his Father, and brought from heaven by an Angel, firft to Jlfar)', and then to [ofeph ; and on the day when he was circumcifed ( as the manner was) this name was given him by his parents, as it was commanded from the Lord b)' the Angel Gabriel· L k • 6 . ,no'tto !land onrhe mme, for the matter it includes both his office, and· his natures ; h; u c '·- ,,r. is the alone Saviour of man, for there . i5 none other , name under heav~n given among p,a. 4 . 12• men whC?·eb)' we rr.uft be faved, and he 1s a perfect and an abfolute Savwur, he i; able H b • to fave them to the utrermofl that come unto God by him , feeing he ever liveth to mak§ e • 1 ' - 5 • interce 1 Ton for them. I will not deny, bur .that the work of falvatioo is common to all the three perfons of the Trinity; it is a known rule, all omward auions are equally Opera rrini 1 a– common to the three perfons, for ast~ey are all one in nature and will, fo mu!t they be alfo "' ad'"''" one in operation; the Father faverh, the Son faveth, and the holy Ghofl: favetlt; yet we [unr indivifa. mufl: di!linguiO·t tliem .in the manner of faving ; the Father faveth by the Son, the Son faveth by paying the ranfom and price of our falvation, the holy Ghofl: faveth by a particular applying of that ranfom unto men: Now whereas the Son pays the price of our redemption, and not the Father,northe holy Gholl, therefore in thisfpecial refpect . ,] he is called our Saviour, our {efi", and -none but he. This object, though contained in a word, is very comprehenfive; herein is fer forth to our view, tbe offices of Chri!l, the two natures of Chrift, the qualities of Chrift, the excellencies of Chrifl: 0 what variety of fweet matter is in ref"' ? he hath in him all the powders of the merchants; an boly foul cannot tyre it (elf in viewing 'fe[H1 · we Cant • 6 know onerhingtyresquickly, unlefsthatone:-beall; whichfo is Cbrift, andnone'elfe, · ,. • he i< all ar~d in all; all bel?nging to being; and all belonging to well being; in things <Zol 3• 11 : below Jefm, fame have tlus excellency, and fome ~ave that, but none have all, and this . withers contemplation at the root; contemplation is foul-recreation, aad recreation is kept up by variety; but 0 what variety is in Jefus? variety of time, He i; A/ph,, and Omega; vanety of beauty, he;, white and rudd)': variety of quality, he is a lion and a lamb, a fervant and a Son, variety of the excellency in the world, be is man, and God. 0 where !hall we begin in this view of Jefus ? Who jl~all declare his generation? r: or '"ho jlulil count and rec~n hi; age.' All the Evangelifl:s exhibit unto us the Saviour, Ea. S 3 " 8 ' but every one of them in his particular. method; Mar/z_defcribes not at all the genealogy of re{m, but begins his hill?ry at his baptiftll; Matthew fearcheth out his original from Abcaha>n ; Luk§ follows 11 backwards as far as Adaw. John pa!feth further upwards, even to the erern.al generation of this Word rhat w.u ,;,ade fofi': So they lead us to {eft«, mounungupfourfeveral!teps; in the one we fee himonely among the men of Ius own time ; tn the fecond he is feen in the tenr of Abraham · in the third he is yet higher ~ to wit in Adam; and finally having c?averfed all ages , thr~ugh fo many genermons, we come to contemplate him in' the beginning, in the bofom of the Farher~ tn that eternity in which he was with God before all worlds: And there let us begm, !ldl looking unto Jeft", as he carries on the great work of our falvation from firlt ro !afl , from everlafl:ing to everlafling. c SECT.
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