e 232 Of lCÖ' íVI M U N i O x With, lnefs. ft is Paid of theNazarites for their typical holinefs, Tbey were purer than fasse, and whiter than milk, Lain. iv. 7. And the prophet thews us, that fearlet, red, and criefon, are the colours of fin and guilt, whitenefs of innocency, ¡fe. i. 18. Our beloved was a lamb without fpot or blemilh, '1 Pet. i. i 8. He did no fin, neither was there any guile found in bit mouth, i let. ii. 22. He is holy, barmlefs, undefiled, feparate from inners, Heb. 24. as afterwards will appear ; and yet he, who was fo white in his inno- cency, was made ruddy in his own blood, and that two ways, naturally, in the pouring out of his blood, his precious blood, in that agony of Isis foul, when thick drops of blood trickled to the ground, Luke xxii. 24. as alfo . when the whips and thorns, nails and fpears, poured it out abundantly, there came forth blood andwater, Joh. xis. 34. He was ruddy, by being drenched 411 over in his own blood. And morally, by the imputation of fin, whole colour is red and crimfon. God made bim to be fin for us, who knew ,,o fin, 2 Cor. v. 2n He who was white, became ruddy for our fakes, pouring out his blood an oblation for fin. This alfo renders him graceful, by his whitenefs he fulfilled the law, by his rednefs he fatisfied juftice, This is our beloved, o ye daughtersof Jerufalem. 3.) His endearing excellency in the adminiftration of his kingdom is hereby alto expreíled. (a) He is white in love and mercy unto his own ; red with juftice and revenge towards his enemies, Ifa. lxiii. 3. Revel. xix. t3. There are three things in general, wherein this perfonal excellency and grace of the Lord Chrift doth confift. (r. His fitnefs to fave, from the graceof union, and the proper neceffary effefts thereof. (2. His fulnefs to fave, from the graceof communion, or the free confe- queuces of the grace of union. (3. His excellency to endear, from his compleat fuitablenefs to all the wants of the fouls of men. (1. His fitnefs to fave his being (r.404, a fit faviour fuited to the work, and this I fay is from his grace of union. The uniting of the natures of God and man inone perfon,madehim fit to he a faviour to theuttermoft. He lays his hand upon God by partaking of his nature, Zech. xüi. 7. and he lays his hand upon us, by being partaker of our nature, Heb. ii. a4, 16. and fo becomes a days-man, or umpire between both. By this means, he fills up all the diftance that was made by fin between God, and us, and we who were far off, are made nigh in him. .Upon this account it was, that he had room enough in hisbreaff to receive, and power enough in his fpirirto bear all the wrath that was prepared for us, fin was infinite only in refpeir of the objeft, and punithment was infinite in refpeftof the fubjeft. Thais arifeth from his union. Union is the conjunftion of the two natures of God or man in one per- fon, foh. i. 14. Ifa. ix. 6. Rom. r. 3, 9, 5. the neceffaryconfequences- where- of are; [i.] The fubfiftence of the human nature in the perfon of the fon of God, having no fubfrftence of its own, Luke i. 35. 1 Tim. 3. 16. [a.] - Roumvla Aaptolrat., that communication of attributes in the perfon; whereby the properties of either nature, are promifcuoufly fpoken of the perfon of Chrift, under what mine foever, of God and man, he be fpoken. of All. xx. 28. iii. 21. (a) Al,, candidum exponent effe purls & probis,rubrum &cruentum reprobisad cos puniendos at IL6;.- dicimr. úT.?y1lt1'W1275 Cur tube= veßimenta tua ? quod nomminus rege deChaift paffene ex- ponunt, Mere. inPon; (b) Revel. vi. a. [3.] The
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