Chap. 2. SeCt.4 LoiJking unto ftftts. Book. IV. miracle, a5 well as myftery ofgodlinej[e, qod manifeft in the flejh, juftified in the Spirit, feen of Angels,preached unto theGenrifer, bcfreved on in the world, received up intoglory. 4· It was a .miracle that God iliould look Ypon us in our blood ; what a fight W'lS it for God! when thy navel wM mt cut, when thou w4 not fldted at all, nor jwadled at all, when thviJ waft Ezek. x6: caft out in the open field to the /oll.fhing of thy perfon ? yet that then, 4 , even then the Lord fhould paife by thee, and fee thee polluted in thy 5' own blood,and fbouldfay IM'JtO thee when tho# waft in thy blood, live; (i, yea fay unto thee :vhen·thou waft in ~hy blood f~ve. 0 miracle of mercies ~ IfcreatiOn cannot be wtthout a mtracle, furely the new creature is a miracle indeed. So contrary is our perverfe nature to all poffibilities of falvation, that iffalvation had not marched to us all the way in a miracle, we fhould have periilicd in the ruinei of a fad eternity. Election is a miracle, and creation is a miracle, and redemption is a miracle, and vocation is a . miracle ; and indeed every man living in the frate of grace, is a perpetual miracle; in fuch a one his reafon is turned into faith, his foul into fpirit, his body into a Temple, his earth into heaven, his water into wine, his averfations from Chrift into intimate union with Chrifr, and adhefions to Chrifr. 0 what a chaine of mirades is this? why L ord if thou wilt, th~u canft mak§ me cleane; fay thus, you that are yet in your blood, why Lord if thou wilt thou canft ma~ me cleane. 0 L?rd I be!eeve, help thou my un· ~~ - e/[fter thuthere WM afeaft of the fCWf, and 'fefUJ went up to fe• John f.Z, rufalem: Some would have this feafr to be Pentecofr; and to f peak truely,the moll ofour commen~aries run that way: others take this for the feafr of the Paffeover, and the rather becaufe ..the Evangel ill 'fohn reckons the time of Chrit1:s publike minifrry by the feveral Paffeovers; now if this feafr were not a , ,Paffeover, we cannot fin de in the Gofpel fo many Paffeovers as to make up Chrif.l:s minif.l:ry three years and an halfe. On this ground I joynewith the latter opinion; and fo here I end the fecond yeare of Chrifrs minif.l:ry, and come to the third and to his aCl:ings therein in reference to our fouls fa! vation. • Hhh .z. CHAP.
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