An Expojition of the Epifile ~ abottt <Ill Htmdredyears old, 110r the dead11efs of Sarahs .Womb, hr j/aggered Sermo11 110t at the prormje of God throttghu~tbeluj, but WMjlrot~g m Fatth gtvmg glory XXX. to God, a11d /Jei11g fully perf<»aded that what he hadpromtjed he WM able aljo to ~pnjorm. The Apof\le here fj>eaks only of Fatth m. the l'ower of God to give him a Son, to· give htm ljaac, what was thts to JUfhfymg Fatth, for I count £hat to be Faith jufrifying that hath )ufrification for its object, and the Faith whereby .Abraham was jufrified we are )uflified, and certainly it mufr be fo or elfe the Apofrle proveth nothmg 10 bnngmg the mflance of Abra– h,tms' Faith that we mufr have the like 1 But if you ob(erve the coherence of one thing with another you fhall fee this doubt is taken off, and that the Fairh here fpoken of is plainly Faith laying hold upon jufrification, and doth according to the pattern of .Abra6am's Faith require the like of us. Read firfl the 17th, verfe. The Text faith that Abrahamwas the Father of us all, (as it u wrium, (faith he,fpeaking of the promife of ljaac,) I have made theert Father of ma11yNatio1ts,) before him whom he believed, evm Godwho quichttth the dead, a11dca/Jeth thofe thi~tgs which be 11ot as though they were• .Abraham faw the RefurreCl:ion of Chrift in two things. He faw it firfr in the birth of l{<zac, for though Sarahs Womb was dead, and his own body was dead, yet he believed that God W(!uld raife.up lfaac, (a Type of Chrifi,) out of this dead body, out of Sarahs Womb. Here was one qmcknmg of the dead; L!– braham had a promife that of this very lfaac the MeJ!i.Ib fhould come. What faith God to him1 Go tqke thy Soil (faith he,) aiJd offer,htmfor a 61tr11t Offe– ri11g, .A6rahammade full account to dolt, he had no retuge 10 the· World but this, that God was able to raife up I{aac again, for it was as much as if God had faid to him, go kill the Mejfiah , for if ljaac had been killed, if l(aac ihould not live and get a Child, and fo Child after Child,the Meffiah fhould not comeout of the Loins of .A6raham, and fo his Faith had been void, all the promifes mull be let go. Now, look in He/;. 11. 17, 18, 19, By Faith (faith he,) .A6raham wbm be was tryedofferedttp ljaac, (he is faid to offer him up, becaufe it was as good as done,.Abraham thought it was fo,)mldhe that had receivedthepromi{ts, offered 11p hu ottly begottett So11. Here was his Faith now, If l{aacdie he mufr loofe all the promifes,yet he that received the promifes faith he offered him up; there– fore he is faid to believe againft hope, againfl, hope becaufe the Mejfiab was to come out of lji111c's Loins, and if Ifaacdid not live he was to loofe his Me[Jiah, his intereft in Heaven, his jufiification and falvation and all. Here is his trial now. Read on, verfe 18. For i11 l(aac {halt thyferd be called. It is not only A6ra– ham's feed, but it is the feed of Ijaac, therefore J(aac muft live, I am gon elfe, I mufi never look for falvation elfe. In this frreight what doth A6raham do? Verfe ' 9• L!ccotmtittg that God wtU able to raif! him ttpfrom the dead; here was all his refuge. And when God did bid him fpare ljaac, he looked upon this as a 'Type of the Refurretlion of the M~[Jiah, fo faith the next words, from wbe11u alfo he received him i11 aftgure, in a Type, a Type of what? Of the M~[fi,,h to come out of his Loins, So then when /1/;raham firfl believed the promife, the begetting of lfaac was a Refurreetion from the dead; when he offered him up it was the death of the Mejfiah to him, for Ifaac was the figure of the Mef!iah, he was a figure of himin his RefurreCl:ion therefore ia his death. Now,then when God did give him ljaac again, faith he, evm thtu/halt thatfeedpromijed6e put to death audrift agaiH; aiJdthuFaithwaocotmted to .A/;raham for righteoujiuj's; this was Faith, be– lieving in a figure upon God that raifed up Chrifl from thedead, for lfaac was in this a Type of Chrifi, and Abraham faw Chrifi's day in this1 That this is the fcope of the Apoflle in that 4th.to the Rommts,being thus corn· pared withHe6. n. appeareth by this, faith he verfe 22. Therefore this Faii/1 WM imputedto himfor righteotejiuj's; here is jufiifying Faith, Now (faith he,) itWM11otwrittmfor his[akea!o11e, that it was imptlled tmto him, but fort<! al{o to whom it fha!16e impttted, (like as it was to A6raham,) if we 6elieve otJ him that raifed11p _7efiu o11r Lordfrom the deiJd. Here is your object of Faith thatjufiifieth, this was .A6rah"m's Faith in a Figure, and this is a Believers Faith, to believe on him that raifed up Chrifr from the dead, why ? To be jufiifi•cd by Ill m: Who was delivered (faith he,) for otJrojfellces, flfld wa1 rmjed agai11jor om·ptjltjicatiolt, You
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