d SERMON 'on The firft 'Srancb : . Tho tl1i11gs to explicate the firft 'Branch. 1. That Chrijt's ojferi11g /,imftlf 1vas imended as a Sacrifice for Enmities be– twwl'the Sai11ts 1 as well M agam.fl God. · - T. Wo things are difiinClly to be fpoken unto for the clearing of thefe things: ) . That the.offering up Cbrift's Fle!h on the Ctofs, was :intended ds ~ &crifice as well for our Reconciliation mutual, as for Reconciliation with God, ' 2. How -according to the Analogy of the Ends, Ufe, and Intent of Sacrifices of old, the offering up of Chrifi's Fle!h !hould )>e intendeq and direCted as a Sacrifice to take away thefe our own Enmities, and make Peace and Friendfhip amongrt our felves. For the firfr, which is the o-n of this Point, That; as ~ Sacrifice it was fo in– tended, the whole Frame and Contexture of thefe Words cloth evince it. firrt; When ?e Gys, v, I 5· That he bath a~olifbcd the Emnity in hH Elefb, he cloth undemably mtend that Enm1ty wh1cb was between thefe twain, the Jew and Gentile, .C this bath been proved before) and therefore he is found particularly to inrtance m the R1tes of the Ceremomal Law, ( whtch by a Metonymy he calls the Enmity) as the outward occafion of that bitter Enmity in each others Hearts. Now then, Secondly; That this Enmity was taken away by his Fielb as a Sacrifice, Firft; The laying together the Phrafes of the Text evinceth it ; as when he fays, He hatb abolifhed tbis EmHity in hH Flefb, . 1. In [Jying, tbc E11mitJ in his Flejb, it nece!Tarily imports his having taken that Enmity in or upoJl his own Flefh, to anfwer for it in their fiead. Even as well, as when in the t 6th verfe he is faid to have jlain the Ennzity (namely, againfr God ) in bimftlf, thereby is intended, that he took that Enmity on him– fdf, undertaking to pacify and allay, and by being hirnfelf Oain, to Oay it. 2 . In laying in the time part, that he bath abo!ifbed it in hH Flejb, this notes out a virtual Ml perfetl:ly done and part, (as in him ) by virtue of which it is to b€ defiroyed aCtually in us after. Unto which, . _ j . Add that in the I 6thverfe, there is an additional word [by theCroft] put in, which, chro T~ ""'"· or in common; is to be referred to the abolifhing ofthis Enmity in his Fle01, v.t). and reconciling us mutually, as well as to the Oaying of the Enmity againrt God, mentioned v. I6. as that which equally and alike fhews the way, how we are to underfiand, that in his Flefh he bath perfeCJ:ly abo– lifhed both thefe Enmities, namely, by taking on his Flelh that Enmity, and of– fering it up upon the Crofs as a Sacrifice for it: For to fay, By tbe Croft, or, by the Sacrifce of himftlf on the Croft, is all one ; fo as what the one Verfe wants, the other fupplies: In h# Flefb, fays the I 5th verfe,. By the Croft, fays the I 6th. And (which will warrant this) we have elfewhere ooth put together, Colojf. I. 20, 2 2. By the Blood of hH Croft, in the Body of his Flcfh, tbro11gh De.th. Secondly ; The parallelling this place with that of Col. 2. argues this: The Enmity here infianced in by a Metonymy, is the Rites of the Ceremonial Law, which he is L1id to have made void or weak. Thus expreOy, v. I 5· Having a'bolifbed in his Flejb theEnmity, the Law of Commandments in Ordinances. Now the abolifhing thereof is, in that fecond to the Colofjia11s, expreOy faid, ro have been by the Sacrifice of his FleOJ on the Crofs; or, which isall one, that by his being nailed to the Crofs; he nailed it to his Crofs: Col. 2. 14. Blotting o11t the H<md-writing of Ordinances that was_agt~in_ff 111, and took_1~ o1t1 ~f. the. way, natlmg it to bis Croft, which fully accords wtth thiS Text, He abolifbed zt m hu Flefb by the Croft: La!lly ;
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