250 itOe Parinettp of i e íbmnte ít íänteß Chap, 14 Favour of God, for on filch accounts that Title is coni- 1 municated to others : but his only Son by Nature. The Pfal. 8z. 6. foie preeminence in Gifts and Dignity would give John 3.16. him the title of the firth born,but not deprive them ofthe . John 8. 36 quality of Brethren. Now the Wifdom and Juffice of H`b. 1. S. all Nations agree, that Punilhments receive their effi- mare from the quality ofthe perrons that fuffer. The Poet obferves that the Death of a Vertuous Perfon is more precious than of Legions. Ofwhat ineffimable value then, is the Death, of Ch riff and how worthy a Plurla Ranfom for loft Mankind f For although the Deity is Decii, quam impaflïble,yet he that was a DivinePerfon fuffered. A qui fe"a"tu, King fuffers more than a private Perfon, although the ab ihis.0ven. b fftokes direly infliçfedo ì his, body, cannot immediat- lyreach his Honour. And tis fpecialfy to be obferved, that the Efficacy ofChriffs Blood is afcribed tohis Di col. i, r4, vine Nature : This the Apoffle declares, In whom we have Redemption through hisBlood, even theforgivenefs ofSins, who is the Image ofthe Invifible God: Not an ar- tificial Imagewhich imperfe&ly reprefents the Origi- nal ; As a Piéfure that fets forth theColour and Figure: of a Man, but not his Life and Nature : But the ef- fential and exalt Image of his Father, that expreffes all his glorious Perfections in their immenfity and eternity. This is teftifiedexprefly inHebr. r. 3. The SonofGod, the brightnefs ofhis Glory, and the exprefs Image ofhis Perfon, having purged by himfelfour Sins, is fet down on the right handofthe 1VFajefiyon High. From hence arifes the infinitedifference between the Sacrifi- ces of the Law, and Chriffs, in their Value andVer- tue. This with admirable Emphafis is fet down in Hebr. 9. i 3, r4. Forifthe BloodofBulls andof Goates, and the afhes ofan Heiferfprinkling the unclean, fanlli,r- eth to the purification, ofthe Flefh ; Haw much more fhall the Blood ofChr, who through theEternal Spirit ofer'd hi nfe f
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