Chap.4.Seet. J Looking #nto 1efos. Book IV. SECT. 3· Of tbe holineffe if' Chrifts nllturr. NOw in the firft place for the holinelfe of his nature, the Pfalmift t~lls us, th~u art [ldr:r tklln the children_ ofmm, and Pfal. <4 ~. ~ ; [ptce u poured tnto thy ltps , Wh1ch 1s aJI one Wtth that defcription ofCbrift by th!= Spo.ufe, mJ ~rloved u white and r~ddJ,~he Cant, f· xo. chiefeft if ten thoN[ands. Astn thefa1rdl beauty, there IS a m•xture ofthefe two colours, white and rudd;, fo in Chrift there is a gracious mixture, and compound of all the graces oftheSpirit; there is in him a fweet temper ofgentlenefs, purity, rigbteoufnelfe, meekneife, humility, and what not l in himare hid all the Col,~. J~ trelljures ofwifdome, and k._nowledge; and I may adde, of all other guifts and graces; not a grace but it was in Chrift, and that in · an higher way than in any Saint in the world ; and therefore he is called fAirer than all the children of men. Obferve, there wtU . more habitualgrAce· in Chrift than ever wtU, or u, or jhalt be i~ all the Ele£t, whether .Ange!J or men, He received the Spirit out of mcafure ;'there was in him as much as poiTtbly could be in a crea-. ture, and more than in a,Jl other creatures W[latfoever. As the· Sun is the Prince offtarres, as the husband is the head of the wife,. as the Lyon is the King of the beails, fo is this Sun of righteouf.. neife, this head of the Church, this Lyon ofthe tribe ofJttd~th the chiefeff of ten thoufonds ; if we look at any thing in heaven or earth, that we obferve as eminently fa ire, by that is the Lord' Jefus inrefpect of his inward beauty fet forth in Scriptures-, he' is the Sun of righteoufne[Je, the bright mo:rning ffar, the light of the world, the tree of life, the lilly and the rofe; fairer than all the· · flowers of the field, than all the precious Jlones of the earth, than all the lights in the firmament, than all the Saints and Angels in. heaven. You will fay, what's all this to os ? certa·nl'y much every way; . the Apoftle tells you, that the law of the Spirit of life which u in Rom. 8, : . Jefm Chrift hath freed me from rhe law of (inne 11nd of death; let us. ~nquire into thefe words, the taw ~f the Spirit of !ifJ;] the Spirit 6{ life is here put for life, as elfewhere, after threeday es and an halfe, the Spirit oflife aoming from God foal/ mte1'intothem > now· Rev. 11.• 11,, Lfe·
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