the Evangeli.s, confidered. 44 of the Father. God fo loved the World, that he gave ; God font his Son. (3) The efpecial ata yet included in the type, whereby the defign of God, in him, is illuftrated. For this was the looking unto the Brazen serpent lifted up in the Wilder - nefs, by them whowere flung with Fiery Serpents. Here- unto our Faith in Chrift unto Juftification, doth anfwer, and includes a truft in him alone for deliverance and relief. This is the way, there are the only caufes and means of the Juftification of condemned fanners, and are the Subltance of all that we plead for. It will be laid that all this proves not the Imputation of the Righteaufnef of Chrifi unto us, which is the thing principally inquired after : But if nothing be required on our part un- to Juftification, but Faith a&ed on Chrift, as the Ordinance of God for our recovery, and falvation, it is the whole of what we plead for. A Juftification by the remifíion of fins alone without a Righteoufnefs giving acceptance with God, and a right unto the Heavenly Inheritance, is alien unto the Scripture, and the common notion of Juftification amongft Men. And what this Righteoufuefs mutt be, upon a'fuppo- fition, that Faith only, onour part, is required unto a parti- cipation of it, is fufficiently declared in the words wherein Chrift himfelf is fo often afferted, as the objeta of our Faith unto that purpofe. Not to add more particular Teftimonies, which are mul- tiplied unto the fame purpofe, in this Evangelia, the fum of the Doctrine declared by him, is, That the Lord yefus Chrift was the Lamb of God which takes away the fins of the i orld, that is, by thefacrifice of himfelf, wherein he anfwered and ful- filled all the typical facrifices of the Law: That unto this end he faniitfied himfelf, that thofe, who believe, might be fanflified, or perfeFled for ever by his own offering of himfelf : That in the Gofpel he is propofed , as lifted up and crucified for us, as bearing all our fins on his Body on the Tree : That by Faith in L l l him,
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