Part II. The Living Temple. 16 and Nations of it, as well as through all the Ages. When no other Sacrifice or Offer- ings could avail any thing, Lo! He ri fa. comes into a Body prepared on purpole : Heb. 1o, Which, though it was not form'd and affum'd 'till the fulnefs of time, wasGai.4.4, yet reckon'd as flain from the begin- Rev.i3.3 ping of it. This was the Seed in which, tho' it fprung up only in 7udea ; yet, all theGen. 22. Nations ofthe Earth were to be bled. I$° Long was this Body in preparing; and the Seed tranfmitted, through many Generations, whence it was at length to arife; into which, as its Ia.F1 Prepa- ration, the Deity defcended ; and that it might be a fufficiently cofily Sacri- fice, filled it with the Divine Fulncfs. For in him dwelt all the fulnefs of theCol. 2.9. Godhead bodily. When we read Abel's Sacrifice to have been more excellent thanHeb.1 a.4 Cain's ; the Greekword is, it was f41 ler. Hour full a one was this ! That was filled by Faith with a derivative Fulnefs : This, immediately by God himfelf, with his own Self-fill/lei; 5 Whichfilleth all in all and whence all mufk receive. Be:ng
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