.,;#" CHRIST THE SUN o~ RIGHTEOUSNEnS. Book H. MET A PH 0 R. D I S PAR IT Y. II. Bread is a dead Sub11:ance.. 11. But Jefus Chri11: is livino- Bread, was dead for a while, but is alive, mrd llves for evermore. He ever lives to make Intercejjion, dies no more, &c. Rev. Heb. · Ill. Bread properly is for the Ill. But Jefus Chri11: is Bread, Meat, RefrefhBody. ing, Life for the Soul : Whofoever bath Chrift, jha/1 have hzm for ever, foal/ never die, John vi. IV. Bread properly fo called will perifh, as the Manna in the Wildernefs. V. Bread properly fo called,· is literally eaten, as the Fathers did eat M anna. VI. Literal or corporeal Bread is given by the Hands of Men, as Parents give to their Children, · when they alk it. IV. But Chri11: is durable, the fame Yejlerday, and 'Io-day, and for ever; whom God would not fujfer tofee Corruption. V. But Jefus Chri11: is eaten fpiritually, not as the Pap1l1:s do unagme, not to his Hurt or Punifh– ment, but to his Honor and Delight; not as the Fathers eat Manna in the Wildernefs. VI. Chri11: is given by the Hand of God, and by the Mini11:ration of the Spirit: He jhall take of mine and jhew tmto you, John. I N F E R E N C E ~ I F this DoCtrine be true (as it certainly is) which hath been difcovered, then it affords us matter of In11:ruCl:ion : . I. It teacheth us God's great Goodnefs in providing fuch Bread for us, that is fo good in itfelf, fo neceifary unto us, that we die and perifh without it. 2 . It !hews Jefus Chri11:'s great Goodnefs, in vouchfafing to become Bread and Food for us; what manner of Love is this, that the Son fhould undertake to feed and fave us! &c. 3· It !hews the indifpenfible Neceiflty of Mens coming to him, their receiving and being Partakers of him: All Soul -Bread is in him, all Life, yea, all fpirirual Life is in him . Tho[e that refufe him, chufe Death. The eternal Life that God gives, is in his Son, Prov. viii. John i. 4· It !hews the Bleifednefs of thofe that are made Partakers of him: Whofoever bath the Son, bath the Father alfo, John v. 24. And he that bath the Son, bath L ife, and jhall never come into Condemnation. · 5· It teacheth Good and Bad to pray : The Good, that God would evermore give them this Bread, every Day give them Bread: Give us this Day our daily Bread, Matt. vi. The Bad, that God in Mercy would not let them die b•fore they are made Par– takers of Chri11:, the true Bread, the Bread of God, the Bread of Life, that whofoever dieth without, dieth never to live again, he dies the fecond Death. 0! cry to God, to the Lord of Life, that whatfoever you want of this Life, you may not eternally perifl1 without J efus Chri11:. c HR Is T THE suN OF R I GHT E 0 us NEss. But unto you that fear my Name jhall the • Sun of Righteotifnefs arife, 1vith Healing in his Wings, &c. Mal. iv. 2. <Jhe L ord God is a Sun, and a Shield, Pfal. lxxxiv. 11. Which, as Mr. Ainf<»orth notetl1, may refer to Chri(l, Mal. iv. 2. Obferv. JESUS Chri11: is, and may fitly be compared unto the Sun, to the Sun in the Firmanenr, the great Light of Heaven. METAPHOR PARALLEL. I. THERE is but one Sun to I. THERE is but one Sun of Righteoufnefs; give light to the Univerfe, God has many adopted Sons, but he hath and from its Singularity it may but one begotten Son : <Jhere zs but one J'v.!tdtator take its Name, Sol quia folus. betwixt God and Man, the Man Chrifl Jefus, I <fzm. • Sol tVOt:J t;uod fibu appartat, '1!?11o;. ii. 5· but
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