On the }lativit)'. 285 temporal_ redemption, and reflore the king– don1 to lfi"ael. . He can1e not for fo mean a purpofe as the Jews expeCted, to procure their temporal reden1ption, to n1ake his fol– lowers rich and honourable, "fortunate or confpicuous in' the world; nay, both by precept and example h_e taught the'in to con– temn and dcfpife all fuch en1pty trifl~s: but l1e c~me_to deliver his people from ever– lafiing- defhuClion, and from the captivity of fin, and to teach them how by a hqly Jife they might obtain an endlcfs happinefs. He came not ind~ed to purchafe us a li~ berty to fin, without hazard, and then to cover all our iniquities with his righteouf– nefs; to let us live as we lift, and affure us of pardon• .Nay, it had ' neithe,r been con– fiflent with his love to God, to have pro– cured pardon for obfl:inate and incorrigible rebels; nor fo great a benefit to us, to .have obtained remiffion without fanc1ification. Had we been delivered fron1 all other pn– nilhment1 fin itfelf would have n1ade us rniferable. 13ut Chrifi came into the \vorld to fave his people from their JinJ *, as wen as from the difmal confequences of thcn1; and to p~ocure for us, that being delivered ou{ of the hands of ottr enernies, we mig·bt jerve ~ ,Mattn. i. 21 • . ·
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