ay. ir..9 about Cbrifl. 274 sxhich he &flowed luponhis Church for that end , Eph. al. who receive their powerfrom him, cillar.28.1&Such was Pau", Cor. 5. io. and 3. 9, Do. yettherehe acknowledgedthat they wereGcds building, as well as Gods husbandry, lb V.5.7. Two things therefore we find in our great Prophet that differences-him from all the other prophets. i. That no man knows the Father fave the Son, and hé to whom the Sonne will reveal him, Mer.11.27. Jahn 8. Being in his Fa- thers bofome he knows his fecrets , and th:reby is able to reveale the whole will ofIns Father to us , whereas all other, even Prophets, andApoffles have their knowledgeat the fecond handaccording to the grace given them by the Spirit of Chrift, Per.a.xo,t a . John id. 13, &c. 2. All other Prophets and Apoffles can do no more then plant, and water ; but Godone!), gives the encreafe ; they could not fave one foul unlelle Chriti were wich them by the pówerful prefence of his Spirit , 25. Eph. 5. 1.4. Pfahne 13.3. without whofe affillance weare altogether ignorant. For, a (or. 2. 14. wherefore Paul concludeth concerning himfelf,and all his fellow-labourets,that all is of God , Cor.4.6,7. Our Mediatour therefore muff not want the excellency of power wherebyhe may make us capable of this high knowledge of the thin,s of God prepounded to us by the Minitiry of his kJ-yams ; and fo muff bé God as well as man : that he may fave te the utreranoft all that corne to God by him fieb. 7. 2S. Q.L.let. what mew to confider about Chrifis Kingly Office ? Anfw. That he batha Kingdome,lfa.9.7. Dan.7.13,14. Luke'. 31,d.c. He is that new Davidour King , which Godhath raifed up tohis Ifrael, Jer. Hof. 3.5. Ezek34.23. and 37.24. who was in truth both the Sonne of man , and the Sonne ofthe Higheff : that in one refpeft we may fay to him as they did to David , z Sam.5.i. we are thy bone, and fiefh ; and in the other , fing of him as Daviddid, Pfalme Ix°. Tie Lord faid to my Lord, &c. fo that the promife made CO our firff parents, Gen. 3. 15. may 'well fland with '73 - au., fayino , Rom. 16. 20. theGodof peace fhall braife Satanunder ourfeet. For he camepfor this end, z John 3. 8. Tim.3.16. and (fill that foundationof God remaines unfhaken , Ifatah 43. Hof.13. 4. befides me there is no Sa- viour. Quef1. what are the fpecial branches of this Kingdom of our Lord and Sa- . Awfw.Firff, theone of grace , whereby that part of the Church is govern- ed which is here militant. Secondly, the other ofglory, belonging to that part which is triumphant in heaven. Qaeft. How 'sloth he loorkupon this onearth ? . As by his P?ophetzcal office he works upon our minde and under- aanding : fo by his Kinglyoffice, he rules our will and affigtions , cafking down imaginations,&c.iCer./o.s.working in us both to will, and to do Phil. 2. 13. He fandkifieth us wholly, Thef. 5.23. we are taught likewife to believe that both he that fanffifieth, and they that are famaified are allof one , of one and the fame nature, Heb.2./ . that as their nature was tainted in the firff A- daraefo it might be rettored again in thefecond Adam and that as from the one a corrupt fo from theothera pure and undefilednature might be anemic- recl totheheir; offalvation: (zed+, How doth Chriff. exercife his kingly Office towards the Church snephant ? Artfw. In that the faine God that giveth grace , is he alfo that giveth glory: yea°, that the(hems of themmufl run to us through the ;golden pipe of our Saviours humanity.For, 1Cor fince by man camedeath, It was fit that byman N n 2 a/ro 2, u.
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