8o The Perfon of Chrifl tl;e great ~pojitory, Letter, and that of fuch a Charafler as is illegiMe unto us ·as unto any reat difcovery ofthe Grace and Love of God. And as unto thofe of the other fort, which are inflru[/ive unto us in our Duty,. Obedience and Gratitude, we cannot come un– to a praCtical compliance with any one of them but by the Aids of Grace received from him. For without him we can do nothing, Joh. I5. 5. And he alone underjlands Divine Truth whodoth it, Joh.7;17. There is not therefore anyone Text of Scripture which preffeth our Duty unto God that we can [o underfrand as to perform that Duty in an acceptable man– ner, without an aCtual regard unto Chrifr, from whom alone we receive Ability for the performance of it, and in or through whom alone it_ is accepted with God. 3· All the Evidence of Divine Spiritual Truth, and all the Foundation of our real Interefr in the things whereof it is a declaration, as to benefit, advantage and comfort, depends on their Relation unto Chrifl:. We may take an Infiance in one Article of Divine Truth, which feems to be mofr dif– engaged from any fuch Relation, namely, the Refurre[/ion of the dead. But there is no man who rightly believes or corn. prebends this Truth, who cloth it not upon the Evidence gi– veq unto it, and Example of it in the Perfon of Chrifr rijtng, from the dead. Nor can any man have a comfortable expe– Ctation or Faith of an efpeciallnterefi in a btejfecl Refurre– Oion (which is our whole concern in 'that Truth, P hil. 5·I r.) but by vertue of a Myftical Union unto him as the Head of the Church that fhall be ra~fed unto Glory . Both thefe 'the Apoftle infifis upon at large, I Cor. I). So is it with all other Truths whatever. Wherefore all Divine Supernatural Truths, revealed in the S_cripture, being nothing but the Declaration of thefe Counfels ofGod, whofe Foundation was laid in the Perfon of Chri!l: ; and whereas they are all of them expre.Jjive of . the
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