· Of the Promi}es ·t·.z9 in going through with it, Ifa. xlii. 1 ,~4· And in the faith of this covenanted aflifiance, he werit thro• the hardefl: pieces thereof' chap. l. 6. ' I gave my back to the fmiters, and my cheeks to them that p1uck· ed off the hair : . I .hid not my face from --- fham.e ancl, fpitting, Ver. 7. For-the Lord God will help me.' Actordingly, in his heavinefs in the garden, ' There appeared an angel unto hin1 from heaven, firength~ ning him,' Luke xxii. 43· And this ·promifed affiftaJ?Ce was the token of his Father's gooc\ pleafure in, . and liking ()f the work, while it was a doing; Secondly, He had a promife of the Acceptance of his work, when once done; of the acc~ptance · there.. of, as a full difcbarge and performance of th~ coodi!" tion of the covenant, intiding.. him to the promifed . ·reward. Hence, in view of the fure performance of his work, the acceptance thereof was, at his baptifm proclaimed by ·a voice fr~m heaven; faying, ' This is my beloved Son, in whom I arri well pleafed,' Mat. iii. I·7· And it was renewed at his transfiguration, a little before his paffion, .chap. xviii. 5· Unto this pro· mife of acceptance, belongs the ptomife of his refur- . recrion, :rnd of his jufiification. 1. The promife. of his refurrecHon from the dead, Pfal. xvL 10.. ' Thou wilt not leave my foul in hell~ neirher wilt t~ou fuffer thine·ho!J01-1e to feecorruption;~ which is expounded of the. refurreetiorrof Chrifr, Acts ii. 31. God, by railing Chriil: from the dead, did. in effect declare his ·accept:a,nce, of the ·work by him per-" formed. It evidenced the debt to be fully cleared• that . he who laid him up in the prifon dJ the grave;. did bring him out of it again; fending his angel ta fOil away the Hone from the door of it, and fo to ·di{; mifs him legal1y. Fox thus it was agreed in the cove- ' nant, that, as Chriil: fhould.give himfelfto ·the death, for the fatisfaetion of jufiice ;. fo the Fa.ther !hould bring him again from the de~d, in refpeet of that.fatis• faCtion made by his 'blood, Heb. xiii. 20. I 2 ~. The
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