zo4 BooK.lV. Looking u,aro 1-efus. Ch~p. I. Seet. 7' ------------------ .flothin,g ,Dan.9.26.'Tbus all along from hi~ cratch .to his Cro1fe--; [weet favours, but fowre grapes; at !aft indeed the grapes grew to a ripeneffe, and then he was preffed, and his deareft heart bldod runne out in abundant fire~111ofs · this was the fweet juice ofour garden~ Vme, Cod pbmud tt, the heavens' water it , the Jewes prune 1t, what remallles now but that we abide in it? but,of that when we come to the directions bow we are to look. ------ ------------. -----_--...- SECT. VII. of fome cpnfequwts after chrijls birth. 7· so M E confequents after the birt~ of Chrifl may be touched, whtlefi yet he was but a chtld of twelve years old. AsI. When he was but eight dayes old , he was circumcifed. and riamed [efus. As there was fbame in his birth, fo there wa~ pain in his circumciGon; a fharp razor paffeth through his skin prefently after he is born ; not that he need~d to this ceremony, but that for us he was content to be legally tmpure; in tl~is early humiliation he plainly difcovers the riches 'of his graee. now he fheds his blood in drops, and thereby gives an earneft ofthofe rivers which he after poured outfor the clea.nfing ofour nature and extinguifh. ing ~he wrat~ ofG~d; :and f~r a furt~er dilcoverY, of his grace, at th1s time b1s name ts gtven. htm, whtch was Jef11s: this is the name which we fhouid engrave 1n our hearts, reft our faith on and place our help in, and love with,the overflowings ofchari;y , and joy, and' adoration , above all things we had ne<dof a {efus, a Saviour for our foules, and from our finnes , and from the everlail:ing def\rucrion which fi6ne will otherwife bring upon our foules; hence this name [ef us, and this figne circumcijion are joyned together , for by the effufion ofhis blood Heb.9.u. he w.as to be our {ejits, our Sav_iour: witho:Jt foedding of 6/ood ;1 R om.4. IJ no remiffion of jinnes ? no falvatton of foules . (ircumcijion wt11 the feat, and now was it that our {efus was under Gods great feal to take his office , we have heard liow he carried on the great · work
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