.. 74S. Booli: IV. Part+ L1oHng unto g:e[fll. Chap.x.Sea:.7 fide, and be not fflith!tjft, _but btk·eving~ Chrifl: compaffionates his children,.though full ofweakneffe and-wa-nrs; he pitys them that feare him, for he lznoweth Mr frame, he remembretb that we 1'f.xoJ.r 3 ,, 1 , are bJJtdPtft. 2. The object is Chril\ feen or felt; his prints, and 'his sk:m, are the very wicneffes of our redemption, and of l:iis r1:furrection; they declare that Satan is overthrown, that death and hell are fwal!ow~d up in victory. that he heAth JPoJied C I nrincipalities and powers; and co this purpofe are thefecexcs, who 0 .2.15. f _ _ lf.1.6).I ,:_,~. :$this that cometh from Edom, rvitb dJedgurmentt from 73o.?:-rah? By Ed0111~ is meant death; by Bo.?:-rnh (the chief City of Edom) is meant the fl:ateofthe dead or hell, from both which Chrift returned at his glorious relurrection,for thou wilt not leave myfoul in hell, neither wilt thottJuffer thy hoi] one to fee C'orn~ption, Pfal. I 6. I o Now faith the Prophet,or fome Angc:l,who is this th11t comethfrom edom, with dyed g,1r'!mltS from Bozrah r who is chis tha~ cometh fo tryumphantly, w1th the keyes of Edom, and 73o~r.th, ofdeath and hell at his girdle? co which the anfwer is gtven, I that[peak_ 'in rightewfnef{e, mighty tofave; as much as to fay, it is IJefw Chrift, I that am righteous in fpeaking, and mighty in faving ;. whofe Word is truth, and whofe work is falvation, it is I, even I;. this a:nfwer given, another queftion is propounded, ~herefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garmerlts lik.! him that treadeth in the wine·fat ? q. d; here's nothing but skars, and wounds, and blood; ifthou art fo mighty to fave, how comes thy apparel t(). be fo red, and fprinkled, or ihined with blood? to which Chritt anfwers I h111ve troden the wine-pref[e alonF,-andJr.;i/1 treadthem in mine ~nger. I was t.roao, and prelfed, till the very blood. ftreamed out ofmy hands, and feet, . and (ide; fo preffed, that they pr-elfed the very fo.ul out ofmy body. Sec here, beho/dmJ hands, and my feet, and my fide~ that it is I my fe!fe, I have trMd the wine-preffe alene. But as I was troad, fo I will tread; up he g_eti, and he treads on them toot troad on him; his enemies; of. edom, and 'B '~ra are now lik~ fo many clufl:ers under his feet, ~nd pe tramples upon them as upon grapes in a fat, till he makes the blood fpring out .ofthem, and all to fprink)e hi5 g.arments, as i(he.had com~ out of the wineprelfe indeed. See here a double fight·, his- own blood, and his enemies blood; here's the blood of the Lamb that wa~ Oaine, and the blood of the dragon char was . ~oaden llpon; .her~:~ a !how both ofhis p_affion and refurrectio~:
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