I3t"t Of the Pr~mifts 2. The;promife of his jufiification, Ifa. I. 8. He is near that jufiifieth me. The accomplilhment ofwhich is obferved by the Apofile, 1 Tim. iii. 16. ' God was manifefied in the ,.flefh, jufiiped in the Spirit.' Our Lord Jefus Chrifi, having no perfonal fins to be par– doned, needed no perfonal jufiificatio·n: but :ts he was the Surety of the eleCt, and had th~ iniquities of them all laid on him ; it was provided in the covenant, as jufl, that, the work, he had undertaken, being performed, he fuould have ap official ju.fl:ificati· on. Having paid the debr, he had by promife a full and ample difcharge thereof, under the hand and feal ofHeaven.And here lies the great fecurity ofhis people, againfi the law's demand of f.'ltisfaEt:ion from them. : Laflly, He had a promife of a glorious reward, to be conferr'd on him as the proper merit of his work done. There was ajoy fit before him, in the promife, for which he ' endured the crofs, defpifing the fuame,' Heb. xii. 2. Never was there fuch a work wrought; and never was there fuch a reward promifed. Unto it there belongs a fivefold promife. 1. The promife ofa new kind of in terefi in God, as his God and Father, Pfalm Ixxxix. 26. ' He fhall . , cry unto me, Thou art my Fatner, my God.' Our Lord Jefus })ad God to hi's Father, by eternal birth– right : but there was a new relation confiituted between God and Chrifi, as the fecond Adam, Head of the co- · venant, founded upon his undertaking and fulfilling the covenant- condition ; \yhereby he became Heir of · God as : hi~ heritage, according to that of the Apofl:le, :Rom..yiii. 17. ' Heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Chrifi·;' namely, with Chrifi, as the primary Heir.. :For by hi! obedience unto death, he pur~hafed the en– joyment ·ofGod, as a God and Father.l do-not fay, he purchafed it for himfelf; the Man Chrifi needed not that, forafmuch as he had it in virtue of the perfonal union of the two natures; bu·t he purchafed it for fin– ners, who had loll all faving intereH in God, but ~ould , not be hapry without it. l· The,
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