\T x a. I, 2 Epi1lë to the H r3 a a w s, z. Some lay thewhole weight Of the Revelation of the will of God noto Chrift, upon the endowments ofthe Humane Nature by vertueof its PerfonalVnionwith theEter- nai Word ; bút this is wholly inconfiftent with the many ?eflimonics before rehearfed, the Fathers revealing himfelf unto him after that Vnion. Wherefore todeclare the Natureof thisRevelation, we mutt obferve further. 4. That Jefus Chril} in his divine Nature, as he was the Eternal Word and Wifdom OftheFathes, not by a voluntarycommunication, but eternal generation had an omnifèi- eucy of the Whole natureand willofGod, asthe Father himfelf hash, becaufe the fame with that of theFather; their will andwifdom being the fame. This is the bletled 01v054.'0 çnots, or in -being of each Perlon, theone m the other, by vertue of their onenefl in the fame nature : Thus, as God, he had an abfòlute omnifeience. Moreover the myllerfe of the Gofpel, the efpecial CounfèlandCovenant of it concerning the Re- demptionof the Eleih in his blood, and the Worfhip ofGod by his Redeemed ones, being tranfadhed between Father and Son from all eternity, was known unto him ar the Son ; by vertue of his own perfonal tranfaé}ions with the Father In the eternal Coun el and Covenant of it. Seewhat we have elfewhere delivered concerning that Covenant. 5. TheLord Chrift difcharged his Office andwork of Revealing the Will of the Fa, thee, in and by his humanenature; thatnature wherein he dwelt among us, Job. 1.4. For although thePerfonofChrift, Godand man was our Mediator, Atli zo. 28. ph. 1.14,18. yet hishumane nature was that whereinhedifcharged the duties of his Office, and theprincipiumquod ofall his mediatory ad pings, t Tim. 2.5. 6. This HumaneNature of Chrift, as he was in it made of a woman made under the Law, Gal.4.4. wasfrom the inftant ofits Vnionwith thePerfonof theSonofGod, an holy thing, Luke 1.35. Hoe, harmlefl, undefiled, feparated fromfanners , and radically filled with all that perfection of habitual Grace and Wifdom, which was or could be neceffary-to the difcharge of that whole duty which as a man heowed unto God, Luke 2. 40, 49, 52. lob. 8.46. r Per. 2.22. But, 7. Betides this furniturewith babitualGrace for theperformance of all holy obedi- enceunto God, as a manmade under the Law, there was a peculiar endowment with the Spirit without and beyond thebounds ofall comprehenfible meaferes that he was to receive asthe great Prophet of the Church, in whom the Father would fpeak and give out the laf{Revelation of himfelf. This communication of the Spirit unto him, Imes the foundation of his fufficiency for the difcharge, of his Prophetical Office, vfa. 11. 2, 3. Chap. 48. 16., Chap. 61.1, 2, 3. Dan. 9. 24. As to the reality and being of this Giftof the Spirit, he received it from the womb ; whence in his infancy he was faid tobe caspip<tva (rapids, Lull 2.40. filledwith wifdoni, wherewith he con- futed the Dollars to amazement, v.47. And withhis years were thefe Gifts encreafed in him, oprimvr7e aomíau; ñrtxíst d xmetrr, hewent forwards in :Worn, and fiature and favour v. 52. But the full communication of this Spirit with fpecial reference Onto the difcharge of his publiak Office, with the vifible pledge of it in the Holy Ghoft defcending on him in thefhape of a Dove, he was made partaker of in hishap- tifin, Mattb.3. 16. when alto he 'received his firft publick Tefiimony froth Heaven, v. 17. which when again repeated, received the additional command of hearing him, Matth. 17.5. defigning the Prophetthat war to bebeard on painof utter exterminati- on, Deut.18.18,19. And therefore hewasthereupon faid to be ,v'cvpdie- 4yta axnpnr, Luke 4. full of the Holy Ghof} , and fealed to this work by the fign foretold of God, .7oh. 1.33. This was thefoundation of the Fathersffoaking in the Son as incarnate. He fpake in him byhis Spirit, fo he did in theProphets of old, aPet. t. 21. And herein in ge- neral the ProphecyofChrift, and theirs didagree. It temaineth then to thew where- in hisPreheminence above them did confift, fo that the word fßoken by him is princi- pally and eminently tobe attendedunto, which is the Argument of that which the Apofile bath in hand in this place. 8. ThePreheminencies of the Prophecyof Chrift, above that ofMofet, and allother Prophets wereof two forts : a. Such as arofe from his Perfon who was the Prophet. 2. Such as accompanied the nature and manner of the Revelation made untohim. r. They arife from the infinite Excellency of hie Perfon above theirs. This is that which the Apof le from the clofe of this ven a hats open to the very endof the Chapter, making his difcourfeupon it the hafts of enfuing his exhortations. I (hall therefore remit theconfiderationofit, unto its proper place. 2, There
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