324 Chap. 19. .4n Expofiticn upon the Booke of JOB. Verl 25, deeme it, but ifthou wilt not redeeme it, then tell me that I may. (n9w, for there it none to redeeme it befades thee,and 1 am after thee. From this proceeding 'ris evident that redemption belonged to thole that werenear ofkinge,and firft to the neareft. Jefus Chrift is near to us, therefore propéay andin a arid fenfe he is (Goal ) our RedeeFner,,he is flefh otour &ftr, and bone ofOur bone; he is one with us. As we are the children of God by regenerati- on, fo the brethren of Chrift by Adoption. For both he that fanl`üfeth, and they that arefanl ifed,are allofone for which caufe he is not aJhmed to call thembrethren (Heb. 2. i a.)Chrift and we are all cfone, that is of one nature ; we and Chrift as man are not onelycfone Father or Efficient caufe which is God, but we are ofone nature or materiali cattle which is flefh and blond; In which refpett he is our redeemer upon the ftri&eft tearmes Etfi dew parer and laves of redemption. And in that aria fente, betides him in fho perjpiri. there is no redeemer. For thoughGod the Father in the Sort 'u fang` dens p narré redern by the holy Spirit be indeed our Redeemer, yet properly and according to the ft nihcation ofthis word, Jefus Chrift alone nor noter e(t, g g propTie rarren is our redeemer ; who takingour nature upon him, and becom.. tieórræ vocis ing our brother, had right to redeeme us, even as being God in fgn;fi.ario chria our nature, he had full power to redeeme us. We are redeemed )fn convenir, qui b. the blond ofChrift (E he i : In whom we have redempti= quia fafar no- y t. p f 7.) ¡ter (afjìu;npta on tharow he blondi initia carne) The blond of Chrift maybe conlidered-two wayes in the worts fatîI'M eft, joss of-our redemption. reu¡irnendi ; a Firf As the price of our redemption, we have redemption kr, 7 rani - arum redtmercli through hisblond ; that is, blond is the price, by which we are pcteftaier quia redeemed ; pÿe are bought with a price( i Cor 6. 20,) What that d: eft in car is, we are taught (i Pet. i. 2.o.) Not with corruptible things,as, asemas;fejtaruu, flyer and gold, bat with -the preciooto blondof the San of god, as a undefiled and without fjibt. Seeondly, As the blond of Chrift may be confidered as it i> the price of redemption, fo allo as it carries the right of re- demption : Blond implyes nearnefíe in relation. Jed made of oneblondall Nations ofmen (Alts r 7.26,) that is, the blond of Adam the firír man, bath run in theveines of all his pofteritie; And fo there is a naturali relation among all mankinde, though nota legali or civil. Now as God made all Nations of,men ofone blond, lçi he bath made Ch rift; erdus of one bJou,
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