.Eook II. CHRIST THE HE A D. 371 METAPHOR. VII. The Head is the Sear of 'Sorrow ; there it is received and <:entered, Gen. xlii. 38. VIII. The Head receives the Hand of Bkffing from the Father, Gen. xlviii. 18. PARALLEL. VII. The Lord J efus was a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with Grief, !fa. liii. 3• 4· There was no Sorrow like his, it was heaped upon him even to perfection. VIII. The Lord J efus is· the Man of God's Right-hand, made fl:rong for himfelf, upon whom the Bleffing is conferred by the Father, as a To– ken of Good to the whole Church: L; Him all the, Families of the Earth are bleffed, Eph. iii. r 5· IX. The Head receives the ConIX. Cl1rift, the holy and fpiritua] Head, refecration of God, both in cafe of ceived the Confecration of God; for he was fill– Nazarite and High-Prieft, Lev. ed with the Holy Ghoft from the Womb, and as xxxi. 10. The anointing with Oil a perfect Nazarite conrinued feparate until his (or the holy UnCl:ion) was upon Baptifm, at which rime the holy Anointing being the Head, whereby the whole Man upon him in a vi!ible Manner, did fcunifh him for became fan<'lified, and fer apart his Miniftry, and fit him to be a Prieft unto God; for God, Numb. vi. 7· this holy UnCl:ion defcended on him, as it did on the Head of Aaron, not only drenching his Beard, but all the Parrs of his Body alfo, even to the Skirts of his Garment. Say ye of him whom the Father bath fanfli.fied and fent into the World, &c. John x. 36. Who through the eternal Spirit offered himfelf to God. X. The Head beareth the GloX. The Son of God not only beareth the Glory ry, whether it be the holy Mitre, of Priefthood, bur the higheft Glory of his Fa– and facred Crpwn, appertaining to ther's Houfe, which con!ifts of Kingfhip, &c. the Prieft ; Exod. xxix. 6. or the 'J"hou art a Prieft for ever, &c. We fee Jefus made royal Diadem appertaining to fea little lower than the Angels, &c. crowned with cular Princes, and Crown of Gold, Glory and Honor, Heb. ii. 7, 9· Pfal. xxi. 3· ' XL The Head is the principal Object of Envy and Fury, mofl: threatened and ftruck at, and re– ceives the Signs of Death. Jeze– bel tl1reatened the Head of Elijha, 2 Kings vi. 3r. The Wife of Heber ftruck at the Head ofSifera, Judges v. z6. The Beaft appointed for Sin-Offering was to have Hands laid upon the Head ; this was a Sign of Death. XII. The Head is the SubjeCl: of Humility. When Men have been much affected with fome great Thing, they pur Earth upon their Heads. 1 Sam. iv. 12. XL Chrifl: was the principal Object of Envy and Hatred. The Devil envied him, the Jews hated him without caufe, Herod threatened him. One while they waited to kill him ; at another time they led him to the Brow of the Hill, that they might can him down headlong to deftroy him. At !aft they came and laid their Hands up– on him in the Garden, where he received the Sign of Death, after his moft bitter Jl.gony ; and was foon after offered up on the Crofs, as a public Sa– crifice :Be diedfor our Sins, according to the Scrip– tures. Chrifl our Pa.!fover is facrificedfor us. XII. The Lord Jefus was a SubjeCl: of great Humility, much affected with God's Providences, and Men's Wickedneifes. He wept when Laza– rus died. Chrift wept, when the Jews rejected him to their own Defl:ruction, Luke xix. 41. and, as Pub/ius Lettius faith of him, he was never feen to laugh, but often to weep. The Devil, Herod, Pontius Pi/ate, with the Jews, were not content to perfecure and drive the Son of God to Corners; but after they had agreed with Judas to betray him, they endeavored, as much as lay in them, to rake this bldfed Head off from his myftical Body ; nothing would farisfy them, till they had Oain the Lord of Life and Glory. Xlll. llut notwithftanding all, XIII. And fa is Jefus Chrift the Glory of God, the Head is the Glory of the Man. the Glory of the Church. She glories in him: His Head is as the nwft fine Gold: He is altogether lovely. '!"his is my Beloved, and this is my Friend, 0 Daughters of J erufalem, Cant. v 11. XIV. The Head fhewerh the XIV. Chrift, being in all Things like unto us, greareft Signs of Pity and SympaSin only excepted, hath 01ewed no fmall Signs thy to the poor, diftrcifed, and afof Pity and Sympathy, as one touched with our fhCl:ed Members. Infirmities, as appears both before he left the 2 World,
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