1. For the directions of faith in refer~nce ro Chrifts death, obferve thefe particulars. , 1. Faith muft direttly go to Chrift, not firft to the promife, and then ' to Chrift: But fir-ft to Chrift and then 1.0 the promife ; the perfon ever goes eefore the prerogative. · 2. Faith muft go to Chrift M God in the flefh ; this was thedif- , ference betwixt the newTeftament ,and old Teftament beleevl!rs; their fait b, directs only to God, but our faith looks more immediately to Jeius Chrift, beieeve in rhe Lord 'fifm 11nd thoujlutlt befaved. 3. Faith muft 9iree\ly go to Chrift , as God in the flelh, made nnder the far~ . He continued in all things writren in the book of the law to do them, and fo our faith muft look .upon him : Bot of thefe before, I thallllow fay nothing more to thefe particulars 4· Faith muft go roChrift not only as made under the diredive part of the law by his life, but under the penal parr of the law by his death, in both rhefe refpccts Chrift wM made ultder the law; the one halfe of rhe law he fatisfied by the holineffe of · his life, he fulfilled the Jaw in every jot, and every tittle ; the other halfe of the Jaw he fatisfied by his enduring the death, C:\'en the death ofthe croffe; he payed both the princip1l and the forfeiture; and though men do not fo , yet Chrift did fo that the whole lawmight bcfatisfied fully, by his being under borb thefe parts o(the Jaw, pay, and penalty; come then, and look upon Chrift as dying, it was theferpent, M lifted up, and fo look. cd ar, that healed the Ifraehres of their fiery frings . Alas! we are difeafed in a fpiritual fenfe as they were, and Chrift J efus was lifted up as a remedy to us, as the fer pent was unto them ; it remaines therefore that as they looked up to the brazen ferpent, fo we look up to Jefu.r, beleevein Jefus as lifted up for life; and for falvation: M M ofts lifted t4p the ferpent in the wildernej[e, fo muft h the Son of man be lifted 14p, that whofoever belteveth in him fhould Js .l.p f• nst perifh, but haveeternal life. Indeed fomc difference there isbetwixt the ferpent and Chrift.- As, I. The brazen ferpent had not power in it felfe to cure, . as Chrift hath. 2 . The ferpent cured the Ifraelites but only for ~time, to dye againe, but whomfocver Jefus cures in a fpiritual ' fenfe7 , \ I
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