3.24- I I N G. is a kind of Advocate for them, and both cancels tleh Debt, and removes the Punifhment which they had in- curred by their Tranfgretfions. And that of Nature and of Man, Death with all his Hor ors; who could have vanquifhed but GOD, on who all. things, depend, and whom all mutt obey ? To vantquiftpeath. is to give Immortality; and who can give Immortality but GOD ? Yet 7efus, we are aflured;not only hatbf Immortality, but gives it, in becoming the Author of Salvation to all that obey him. All thefe things, and many more which might he confidered in the Kingly Office of the bleffed Redeemer, molt ittcon.teftably prove, that all the Powers in Heaven, Earth and Hell. are fubfervient to his Will ; that, of courfe, he muff be omniprefent, omnipotent, and eternal; and, therefore, that he is GOD over all, blefed for ever. It may allo be obferved, by the Way, that both the Means of Salvation, and Grace wrought by thofe Means, and Glory the Perfection of Grace, are all de- fcribed by one Epithet, the Kingdom of GOD ; becaufe,; as it has been well remarked, ". thofe, whom GOD by Means brings to Grace, he will by Grace bring to Glory. Now, Chrift, being the AUTHOR of eternal Salvation to all that believe, is the Author of the Means as well. as the End, is the Occafson and Accoinplifher of all its Purpofes, and, for that reafon, is juftly confederated in the Kingdom with GOD the Father and the Spirit. The Kingdom of GOD and of Chrift, mentioned by the Apoftle, is but one Kingdom, becaufe GOD and Chrift, with refpe& to the Divinity of Nature, are but one. The Scriptures are full of theMetàh's Kingly Office ;. and no wonder ; for, if he were not, a King and a Con- queror, what muff have become of his People, fur- rounded, as they are, with innumerableEnemtes_with- out, and troubled with treacherous and deceitful. Hearts within? The Pfalmift, in particular, is ever exulting in the Omnipotence and Dominion of his Saviour, who was to fet his Throne upon the holyHill . . of
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