r'loJ'...J'l BooK IV. ~ Of Eleaion. CHAP. Vllf. What Security the confidmztion of Chrift's Perfon, his Re– lation to m, and Office for m, affords to our Faith,thdt we fhaU be ftrengtbned to perfevere unto the End. A:r he is Chrift our Head, we are EleCled in him to aU thoje benefits of Grace which were above the Dues of Creation. As thofe Benefits had no dependence on the Fall, Chrift conftdered M our Head, WM a fufficient Ground for God:S be~owing them upon m in Elellion; viewed M we flood in that Relation to him, M be is our Head, God Loves us in him, and with the fame;Love he does him, and therefore he wiU love us unchange– ably, and never ceafe fo to do. Ar Chrift is Jefus a Saviour, our firft Calling into Grace, and our continu– ance and perfeverance in it, is the purchafo of his Blood. Supplier ()f Grace and Strength for him to give u:r Ability to ftrengthen us againrf Temptations and Deli– verance out of them, is tbe price o( his Sufferingr. SECTION. The fecond Headpropofed wao the Conjideration of Chrift's Perfon, Re– lation to zts, and Officefor ~ts, [by Jef~ts Chrifl:] And fee what ~ey rvill afford for Confolation·and Security herein. s. COnfider his Perfon and Relation to us, as he is Cf.yifl. In his Perfon, you know he is the Sen of God in our Nature, God's Chrift : And as confidered fuch, conftituted and made an Htadand Hmbandun– to us, who are his Fellows, chofen to be one with him, as God's Chrift, or a· 11ointtdover us, and to us, as an Head, P[at. 40. 2 . Confider him as Jefm, and as he undertook to be a SaviouY and aRrdttm· tr to us, and who bath by his Merits purchafed all for us. I know that both thefe two Titles of his are often mentioned, but with an intent only to defign forth who it is that is fpoken of, when mentioned, name– ly, that individual Perfon Je(mChrijl. But his mention here being with a [By] ."fef#s Chrif/,as a Note of Influence &Accufation unto the things here fpokcn of. Give me leave therefore to enquire wh~t each of thefe, and particularly what the confideration of Chrifl, fo far as it may be from Scripture warrant, concei– ved difiinCl from Jef tu , will afford to fecure us the Elect of God, of our per– feverance, or being carried through Temptation both, r.By '
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