The Nature of Chr /'.r Suretip. 2 53 2. As the means and caufe of Communicating all Grace and Glory unto us. For we are chofen in him before the foundation of the World, that we fh. ould be Holy, and predefiinated unto. the Adoption of Children by him. Ephef. 1. 3, 4, 5. He was de- figned as the only procuring caufe, of all fpiritual Blefíiñgs in Heavenly things unto thofe who are chafen in him. Where- fore 3. He was thus fore- ordained as the Head of the Church, . it being the defign of God to gather things into an Head in him, Ephef. 1. io. 4. *All the Elea of God were in his eternal purpofe and defign, and in the everlafting Covenant between the Father and the Son, committed unto him to be delivered from Sin, the Law, and Death, and to be brought into the enjoyment of God. Thine they were, and thou gave fi them unto me. Joh.17. 6. Hence was that love of his unto them, where- with he loved themand gave himfelf for them, antecedently unto any good or love inthem, Ephef. 5.2 5, 26. Gal. 2. 20. Rev. 1. 5, 6. 5. In the profecution of this defign of God, and in the accomplifhment of the everlafting Covenant, in the ffine%s of Time he tookupon him our Nature, or took it into perfonal fubfiftence with himfelf. The efpecial Relation that enfued hereon between him and the Elea Children, the Apofile de- clares at large,. Heb. 2. IC, rI, I2, 13, 14, 15, 16,17. And I refer the Reader unto our expofition of that place. 6. On thofe Foundations he undertook to be the Surety of the new Covenant, Heb. 7. 22. Yefus w a made a Surety 'of a better Tefameut. This alone of all the fundamental confi- derations of the Imputation of our fins unto Chrift, I (hall . infft.upon, on purpofe to obviate or remove, fòme miftakes about the Nature of his Suretifhip, and the refpea of it unto the Covenant, whereof he was the Surety. And I [hail bor- roar. what I (hall offer, hereon, from our expofition: of this paffage
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