Chap.5. Sccr.5. JLool\ing unto 'jjdus. Book lV. pt he th•tbelievethon me hath everlaj/"i"g life . 0 remember this in the firfl: place, Faith rnufl ga unto Chrift; and yet ,I m~an notto Chrifl, as ablh:actly and mkedly confider– ed . but to Cbrill: as compafs d With all hiS Pro1mfes, Pnv1ledges, Benefits. l. Faith mull go to Chrilt , as God in the flen1 . Some make this the difference of Faiths acting betwixt BelieYersof the Ne_w and Old Te!lamem: Under the Old Telt~menr, when Chrill: was but 111 the Prom•fe,_and not as then come m the flen1, .the1r faith had amore ufual rccourfe uuto God lumfelf; as for Chn!l (God-Rlan, man-God) they had not fo dilti~ct, but only a confufed knowledge of him; and therefore )'1e h read not fo frequently and ufually of their recourfe unto him, but only unto God. 0 ' <l ron. 10 our God, wilt rJ 101, not j11dge them? we know not what to do, but o11r eyo are upon thee- l'ial. 78~:;.~0; and, Hear me, 0 judah,. andye inh.tbitants of J:nifalem, believe in the Lord your God, fo Jha/lyebe eftablifhed.- and, The Lordheardthu, and IVM wrath-becaufe they believed not in God and mtjfed not .n hr< falvatton. But now under the New Tefl:amenr, be- .caufe Chrl!l as Mediator, who was promifed, is ~ome, our Faith more ufually and immediately addrelfeth it felf unto Chri!l, •> God in the HeJh. God dwelling in ou( nature i• made more familiar to our Faith, than the pcrfon of the Father, who is mee.;ly God : God in the flell1 is more diftinct.Iy fet ford) in the New Teftamtnt, and fo he is more di!lint!ly to be apprehended by the Faith of all Believers: Ye believe in. Gad (fayes Chrift to his Difciples, whofe faith and opinion of the .Meffiah was till Chrifl:'s Refurrection of the fame elevation with that of the Old-Teltamenr-Believers) Ye be-l h . /ievcin God; but be refts not there, believe alfo in me ; make me the object of your 0 0 l4••· truft and falvation, as well as theFather, kelieve alfo in me ; not only fo, but believe in the firfl: place on me. One fweedy obferves, that when Faith and Repentance came more narrowly to bedi!lingui!hed by tbeirmore immediate objects, it is laid, down thus, . Repentance to1vards God, and Faith towards qur Lord {efu< Chrif/"; not bu\ that God A(b 10 ' "• and Chri(la.re objects of both; but that Chrilt is more immediately the opject of Faith, and God is more immediately the object of Repentance; fo that we believe in God through believing in Chrilt fir!l; and we turn to Chrifi by turning to God firlt. 0 remember this! Let our Faith in the more direct: and immediate el(e,rcifeofit be pitcht upon Chrift as God in the llelh. - . 3. Faithmu!l go to Chrifl asG.odintheflen,, made under the Law: and beQceitis Gaf,4.4; . that the Apoll:le joynes thefe together, God ftnt hu So11 made of a woman, made.u11der ll I the Law i If Chrift bad been our of the compafs of the Law, his b~il)g i'lcHnat,e, a~,d made of a woman, had done us no good. Suppofe one in debt, and da(IM8 of the Law, to have a Brotherof the fame llen, and bloud, of the fame Father and Mother– what will this avail, if that fame Brotherwill not corn~ under the Law· ( i.) qecome hi; Surety, and undertake for him? It is our cafe; w~ are debtors to Clnd, a?d there is col. 2 , 14 , anhand-writing agawftm, andcontrdryto Ul : here 1.saBond of the Law wluc!J,\<(e have forfeited; now what would Chrill: avail, if he bad not come under the Law, if be had . not been our Surety, aqd undertook for us? Our Faith therefore mull go to Chrifi~ madeundertheLaw, not only takingournatqreuponhim, !;>ut Oljf 4e9t alfo,; ou~ na-, !?<>-'> , 1 . ture as men, and our debt as finful men : HG harh mAd,e hi,felf to become fh.for m ' · • who k!;ewnojin, (i.) he made him to be handled as afinner (or u.s un4.er th.e Lalf; though he knew no fin on his parr, bur continued in all things written i.n \be Book of rhe Law to do them. If Fairh be inquifitive, when was Cbri!l made un4~r th~ Law? I~nfwer, even G , then when he was circumcifed: Thus Paul prote!ls, I teftifie tQev~ry man that h~tbat is a.. r. 3 ' mcumcifed, is a debm to do the whole Law. Cbrilt at his Ci~CUJI)cifion entred intpbon!l w_Jth us~ and undertook for us; and therefore then, and nor till then, he had hi~ Name Luko ••ul g!venh1m, {efm, a Savio,ur: andfrom thattim<lh~wasa.dcb~o.r-rodo thew~pl~ ~.aw. Not only to fuffer, but alfo ro!lo; for he both f~tisfied the O,u:(e, and fulfiUed the ~ommandmems. 0 remember this! as Chrilt, and as Chrift_in the lle!h, fo Chrift m theflenJmadeundertheLaw, isprincipallyro bdnthe ey<lof of o1,1r Faitp. _I,fwe put all together, ourfirftvicw of Faith istolook_ 0 ,ChriftGodi11 rhe {lejiJ, !"•de t'ltder the Law. ' 4· FaithgoingtoChriftasGodintheflen1, indasmadeuQ~er 1heLaw, it is eri_nci– ~ally to look to the end and mealling of Chrift, as beiAgGoli. 11) 1!Je fkn1, ~nd a,.s fulfil– hog the Law. ' · - Now if we would know the meanino of Chrifl in all this, the tpo(lle tells us of.a remote, and ofa more immediate end. " , . • 1 • O! a remote end 1 God fem forth hu Son made of 11 wom6n, mPd: Hnder the l-aw, Gal. 4· 4• f: - · t o
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