Head U. , I h :m: God faith, Deliver hiin; ver. 24. Hereupon his con· fcience, ,being purged by the blood of at<?oement~ is pacified and 'fweetly quieted; he jha/1 pray unto God--~and fee hit . facettui)h joy, which before he beheld with h01r~r, ver. 26. th<}.t is, io New Tefia:ment language, Having an hi~h-priefl over ihe botife of God. he fuall draw near with a trU:e heart, i11 full aJlurance of faith, having-hi1 heart fprinkled from an evil confcience, Heb. x. 21, 22. But then, what becomes of the body, the weak 4nd weary flelh ? W~hy, hi! flejh jhall'befrejher than ti child:S, he jha/1 return to the daJI of his ;·outh, ver. 25· yea, all his bones, (which were ch,af– tened with fl:rong pain, ver. , t 9.) Jhall fa;•, Lord, who it like unto thee? Pfal. xixv. 10. A third benefit flowing from union with Ch~,i(l, is adop– tion. Believers, being united to Chrift,, become childreo_ of God, .and members of the fan1ily of heaven. ·By their union with him, who is the Son of God by nature, they become t'he jons ofGo.r/ by grace, John i. 1 ~. As when. a. branch is cut off from one tree, .and grafted in the b,ran(;h' of another; . the ingrafted branch, by means of its union with the adoptiryg branch (as fome not unfitly have called. it) is made a brancJ1 Qf the fame fiock, wirh that irrto which it is ingrafted : fa fioners being ingrafted into jtful C11ri'tf,. whofe name is the BRANCH, hiJ Father is the-ir Father; hit God their G,od, John XX. J 7· And thus they, who are by nature children of ·the devil, become the children ·of G,od. They have the fpirit .of a.4option; Ro111 viif 1 s. D~mely, th( JPirit ofhi! ,SGn, which brings them to God. as children to a [;~ther ; to pour out their complaints in his bofom, (ll)d to f~ek necer-a~y fupply ~ Gal iv , 6 Becat"'(~ ye areJ~ns, God hath font (ot th thefpiri.t ofhiJ jon lntoyour . hearts, cryinrf, Ahba, l:ather. Under all his weakn,dfes, they have fatherly piry a.nd co,mp~ffinn fhewrf them, Pfa!. tciii. 1 3. Li/ce aJ a father pJtieth his d;i!dren ; fo t/le Lord P1tiefh them that fear him. 'A!tho~ they were bin foundlings, / found in. a de(ert ianJ; 'yet now th:'J! 10 them belong's the . alj vprion , he keep! them. ~J the apple of his eye, Deut .. xxxii._ 10. ,Whofoever purfue them, they hri \'e a ufuge . Ptov . xiv. z(>. Hi.r chi/4renJhall hcct~e a pl4ce ofrefugf:'. In a time ~fcommon cJ. l~ mitv . they , have chambers for protefli"~,. where they may be h1d~ untjllbe indignation be ~1:1&r.llaft, · ..._, · lfa.
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