Serna. 25. How are we compleat in Chrift ? Col. 3. lait claufe of verf. i t. Bs, Chrifi is all and in all. _0 He great concernment of loll creatures is above 1".'r'' all things to mind falvation this is the one thing needful/, this fhould be the great enquiry, andAu eJ o. $. N_. in the negledt of this all our other endeavoúrs are no better than laborious trifles. The great , danger which even they are in, who ferioufly 4 mind falvation, is, leaf! they build upon forre fandy foundation, feeking Heaven in -thofe ways which lead not thither. The great defign of Satan is, either to de. tain poor undone creatures in a totali neglai of falvation, or to de- ceive them in the way and means thereof : 'tis therefore the great care o the Ap oll'e, as in other Scriptures fo in this , not only to undeceive the world as to thofe miftakes which prevailed then but to point out the right, the proper, the onely Pure way of falvation, viz. through Chrifi, whom he here declares to be fo compleat a Saviour, that as we t? have none other, fo we need none other, becaufe Cbrifi. is all. 4. 4 l In the former part of theverfe, the Apofhe }thews the infufficien. cy of all things on this fide Chrfl to commend us unto God or fland us in Read in the matter of falvation , and this he does by removing four millakcs (at that time) common. z. The miflake of the Jews, wbo prided themfelves in a genealo- gical! kind of fanc`tity , as being the feed of Abraham , this they account fo great a matter , that they cannot be perfwaded it could go otherwife than well with them : let the Meffengers of God tell them their fins, warn them of their dangers , yet they fhelter them - felves under this priviledge, as that which would be a fufficient bull - wark againfl all kind of threats and comminations : and though Cc cc.z
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