to theE P H E S I A N S. evidently his Son!hip and ours are fee in thefe terms of difrindion, chat ours is "'-"'-'"1 theSollj!JJj>of /fdoptiOitreceived fromiHs, and that h1s IS pnmmve, ongmal, Serm. 1!. and natural; yea, and this is true ot bun as h~ IS Man, for lt IS fpoken ol him ~ chat was made of a ff'imuw, made tmder the L rtw. Il, The Reafon why under thefe Relations of God and F:tther to Chrifl:, he blelfeth God. · The Second, reafon why he lingleth forth thefe relations of God, as the God and Father, unto Chrifr, and under them blelfeth God. Although th1s will eafily appear in many of the particulars that. follow, yet one Reafon may be, to unvail the Old Tefl:ament and decipher lt toto the New, and bnng forth the Gofpel in its fubfrantial and real intendments, both of the Promife of Blef{t11g, as alfo of Gods relation to Us men : God his bemg thetr God, th1s of old was typically fet forth under this tenure The God of Abraham, the.Godof lfaac, the Godof Jacob, Exod.j.6. And before them, The LordGod of Sem, Gen.g. 26. and in the names of thefe Pacnarchs the conveyance of the Bleiliog ran , and anfwerably their return of Praife and 131eiling unto God again then was, Ble_(Jed bt the Lord God of Sem, Gm.g. 26. Thus before ./16rabam. After, when re– newed in Jaco6s name, BlejJed 6e the Lord God of Ifrael, as you heard out of '])avid; and this form the Jews (upon whofe hearts, as now in their Syna– gogues, the Vtil remaim, in token thereof they wear it upon their heads,) in 2Cor.3> their worthip keep to this day ; but now that the fubfrance is come, the ihadows difappear. ./16raham, and Ifaac, and ·Ifrael are fubduced. The days are come (as the Prophet in another cafe fpeaks) that it /hall11o more !Jefaid, The God of Jer.t 4 .t6. A6raham,&c. but the Goda11d Father of our Lord ."fef•u Chrijl: and as I(aiah lfat.6;.•6. foretold of the Gofpcl rimes, look as my Servams (or Children of God) jhall 6e ca/Jed 6y another 11ame, (namely Chnjlimu, as fir(\ at /lmioch, and no longer Jews:) fo alfo the terms of their Covenant is altered , and fo their form of 6/ejftng God, as was alfo fore-tignified there in the following words, He that Vcrfe , 1 , 6/ef!eth him(elj i11the Earth,Jball61efi himfelf' i1t the God of truth, namely, · when Chrifr, who is the truth a11d the life, lliall come. Old Zachary, that lived in the expiration or extream verge of the Old Tefl:ament, when Chrifl: was not yet conceived, he then ufeth that Old Tejlammt form which he found fandified in the Scriptures of old. But had he frayed halt a year longer 1 (for there• abouts was the difl:ance betweenChrifls and his Son ."fohn Bapttf/s conception;) his Blejfed 6e the God of l(r,ul (which he ufeth in his Song,) had been out of date: and 61ejl6e the God andhlllur of Chrijl had come in its room, and been in force. Meditl)tioll; Oh, let Vs therefore that live under t~e knowledge of Chrifl: irt the Gofpel, Ble/fourGod M the God and Fathero( ./ejt<s Chrifl, which is the highefr note of celebrating his praife, which our hearts can reach to! For it is the mofl: ele· vated frrain of the Gofpellanguage, and of the glory of God, which any man, or all men can rife up unto. It is (aid of Chrifl: in the Pjalms, Pf. 72. 11/t. All Natio11s fba/J call him 6/tjfed. In like manner it was fpoken of and by her felf, that was the Mother of hi• Human nature onlv, All Generations jha/1 callme 6/ejfed. _Oh then, how lhouldWe all61e(J th,u G.od th,zt is the Father of him, whom h1s perfon alfo IS God 6/e(Jed togethe,. wuh his Father for ever! Many good Souls find this as an eternal evidence of their own future blelfednefs, that when wanting alfarance of Gods love to themfelves, they can yet blefs God for his being good to others in the fame condition with themfelves out of their love to God, and to the good of others Souls. If thou findefr fuch elevations of fpi– nt 1n thee, vent and fpend them much more in bletling God, that he is the God and Father of Chrtjl. This is high, and mofr divisc. § Of our Lord ./efus Chri(l,] He having thus fetly difplaycd thefe relations of .God toChnfl, he Interweaves withal [0VR] fpecial relation to Chri(\ ; to wit, [H1s betng our Lord,] his fcope therein being to Jhew the foundation and de· E 2 fcent
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