lfa. 9· 4, 6. Book.lV. Looking unto 1efus. Chap.,. Sett.5 might have feen the very fame reafon elfewhere, the JO~ oftheir burthen and the ~t!Jfe of their jhou!der, and the rod of their opprej[or }ball re broktn --forunto us a child is bornr, and unto f(J a Somle is given; if the1r faith had not firft rcfpected Chrift incarnate, they could never have expected a·ny temporal diliverance by that prornife of deliverance firft laid down; But in this way they might, and fo may we.-- you will fay what's this to us? they looked for Chrifi to come in the flefi1, but now he is come, and that time and defigne is gone and pail: many a year fince; '1 anfwer no, the time is gone, but the defigne is not; Chrift remains God in the fleili to this very day; he carne not as once to manifefi hirnfelfe in fldh, to fatisfie God~ jufiice in the fle{b for finne, and fo to layi t down againe; that fleili rernaines, and iliall remaine; nor is it without ufe, for all the fpirit and life which the Saints now have, or which the Saints !hall have unto the end of the world, it is to be conveied through that fldh,yea the Spirit it fe!fe dwells in it, and is conveied through it, and therefore if they had fo much Gofpel-Spirit in the time of the Old Tef!.a.me,nt (which indeed was rare) h9.w much more fi10uld we go to Chrtft ~s God in the flefh, and look upon it as aftanding ordinar.ce, and belceve perfectly on it ? 3. Faith muft go and lye at the feet of Chri-fr; faith muft fixe and fail:en it fclfe on this God in our fleili: forne go to Chrift and lcok_cn 'fe(U5 with loofe and tranfient glances, they bring in but fla11Jy, fecondary, ordinary aetingwffaith, they have but courfe and common apprehenfions of Jefus Cbrift. Oh qut we 1hould come to Chrift with !olemn ferious fp irits; we iliould l~ok ~n {ejtu piercingly, till we fee him as God is in him, and as fuel! a perfon thus and thus qualified from heaven; we ili:mld labour ro apprehend what is the riches of this glorious myil:ery · ofChrifis iMarnaticn; we fi1ould dive into the depths of his glorious arl ings; we iliould fiudy this mifiery above all other {ludies ; nothing is fo pleafant, and nothing is more deep; that one perfon £11otild be God and man, that God fhould be man in cur nat ure, and yet not a!fume the perfon ofa man; that bleifedneife iliould be made a curfe, that heaven ilionld be le t down into hell, that the God of the world would iliut himfeHe up (as it were ) in a body; that the inviflble God iliould be made vifible ~Q fcnfr ; that all things fi101,1ld become nothing, and ma~c ir [elf of •
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