Chap. z. Seers Louldngunt~!Jtfus. Book. IV. 333 ofno reputation; that God ihould make our nature, which had finned againfr him, to be the great ordinance of reconciling us unto himfelfe, that God fbould take our flefb, and dwell in it with all his fulnelfe, and make that flefb more glorious then the Angels, and advance that fleih into onenefs with himfelfe, and through that fle{h open all his councels and rich difcoveries of love and free grace unto the fons ofmen; that this man-God God-man Gwuld be our Saviour, Redeemer, Reconciler, Father: friend; Oh what myfreries are thefe! no wonder ifwhen Chrifr was borne, the Apofrlecries, weJaw hu glory, M ~f the only begotten , Son ofGod; noting out, that at firfr ught of him, fo much glory John I.x<f. fparkled from him as could appeare from none, but a God walking up and down the world. 0 my foul lt>t not fuch a treafury be unlookt into ; fet faith on work with a redoubled ftrengta; furel ywe live not like men undfr this grea: deugne, if our eye offaith be not firmely and fredfallly fet on this. 0 that we were but infighted into thefe glories ! that we were but acquainted with thefe lively difcovcries? how ble!fedly might , we live by the faith of the Son ofGod who loved us, andgave himfe!fGal, :.10:' for us? · · 4. Faith muft look principally to the end and meaning of Chrifr as God coming in the flefb. Now what was the deftgne and meaning of Chrifr in this? the Apofl:!e anfwers, Rom. 8. 3. Ron.s. 3 , G1d fcnt his Son in the lif<!ne{fe Dj {lnful flF/h, to condemnJinne in the flejb, (i.) God the Father fent into the world his eternal and only begotten Son, whom in his eternal counce! he had deligned to the office ofa Mediatour, to take away or abolifb in the firfr , pl1ce original lin. Marke thele two words, hr condemned fin in the jlefb; the firfr word ccndemned] is by a metonomy put for that which followes condemnation, namely for the abolifhing of fin; as conde?nned perfons ufcd robe cut off, and to be taken out of the world, tha} they may be no rnore; [o Chrifr hath condemned or abolifh~d this Gn . . Forthe fecond word, in the fi~fh J is meant that humane nature which Chrifr affumed : he abolifhed ftnne altogetJler in his own h1~ur~; and that flefh of his being perfectly holy, ar.d the holinelfe of it being imputed unto us, it takes away our guilt in refpeCI: of the impureneffe of otir nature alfo, Some may object, if this were fo, then were we without original Gn? I anf.ver, the flefh or the nature which Chrifr took upon U.u 3 him, ,
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