Senn. 25. l-Iów Are we canopied in CÍDrifI ? 567 This fingle fufi.iency of Chrift the Apoflle proves by a double Argument. I. The compleatnefs and perfection of Chrift as a Saviour, He is all. Take falvation from finii to lafl, in all the feverall parts of it, he is the Heb.i z.s. ' Alpha and Omega, the beginner and perfe&er, the Author and finifher of all. "' 7û7v ;11 2. The way and means whereby Chrift imparts and communicates Grey ylsxmv, ñ this falvation, its by being in all. Some read the words as an ampli -?0' '°,2/;',"4 04 fication of the fulnets and compleatrefs of Chrifl ; Chrift. is all , and "e;', s. that in all things that concern either our prefent comfort, or eternall o;v ntay oec. happinefs. Others refer thefe words in all, to thofe divers f:rts ofin lee. perfons fpoke of in the former part of this Verfe ; to whom that In é bccb ,i e. Chrift may he a Saviour , he difdains rot to take up bis dwelling in ' modum jac their fouls, though lying under all the difadvantages which were then Elificatu, & accc:uritcd 1rejudiciall. Aid thus the Apcile feems to explain him- ci rifeo copula- felf, Gal. 3.28. a parallel Scripture unto this. And according to this tk. Daven. in Expottion, as the benefit of (brills f!afficiency is extended to all' be- e. lex bona OCI lievers by vertue of their union unto him, fo is it reftrained and locked efe, ncßrum non up from all unbelievers. eft, quad autem The Cafe to be int fled on from this Scripture is, flow Chriflians are mule vivimw, complear in Chrift t For the refolving hereof , take this Latta-all de- noh mef,& dution from the words; deli quid pr D i;t. That aria is a Chriflians all. By Chrifliacr I mean not eft bona,f víta them who have nothing more to declare them fuch, than only their ( convey jatio Baptifms and outward profeffions, as the Church of Sardis , Rev. nofera non eft 3. i. We account them Montlers in nature who have the faces of bona. Les enrm men, but in their other limbs , the lineaments and proportions of bona munerii bruit beafis ; and how can we account them better than Monflers in aurenrnon,botta Chr,ftianity, who have the faces of Chriftians' indeed , but withall crimini'r.o3lri, the hearts and lives of Pagans; That All which is in Chrift is no- imo boc magie thing unto fuch , except to encreafe their guilt , and heighten their n paill gem condemnation But by the Chriflian , I mean him who is áan9v's bona, coliern tom +irirs, an ]fraelite indeed, as Chrift speaks concerning athanael, V7,nali culto- john 1.48. One who labours more to be than teem religio;u ; one res jumas. lain whofe.great care is , that his heart may keep an even p.ice ith his °otitis non C tl- tongue, in all his outward profeßìons; no'w to fuch Chri.fl is 1411.tores fr mali, In having an interefl in him, they have enough for the fupply of all no'a onto walks wants; for: the prevention of all dangers; for the procuring allculror, &c, dal= good : And therefore what the Apofile fpeaks here in one word,vian. deGu- Chrifl ù all, he fpeaks at -large , in an enumeration of feverall born aci 1 .
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