Sin not to be accounted fligltr,whJ11e facrifice is fo corny. Melchizedek a type of V I. The excellency of the perron fnewes the greatneffe ofthe Sacrifice, the greatneffe of the facrifice thegreatneffeof the finne, Melchizedek,becaufe he was but/ kened to the Scm e of God, Hcb.7. 3. could not offer a Sacrifice to take away finne : he milbe the Sonne of God indeed, and God himfelfe that marl doe that. The leaíl finne which wee account fo light could never be expiated, but by the bloodofhim that is God as well as man. All created flrength cannot Band under thebur- then ofthe leaft finne. Therefore in the worthineffeof this perron fee the unworthinefle of thy finne tohate and abhorre ir, and thy (elfe in dull and afhes for it. Anhaynous and execrable offence were that which no- thingcould take away but thedeath ofthe Prince. rfaaca typeof Chria in five tefpeEts. r. CHAP. V. 4. Ifaaca type ofChr :. I. TN his birth.Ifu ie,the Pone of Abraham the father of the faithfull : a promifed feed long before he was borne, in whom all the nations of' the earth fhould be bleffed. Yea fo orange was his birth, as that he was not tobe borne by the ftrengthofnature; but ofSarahr dead womb when it was not with her as with o- ther women, infomuch as when the Angell foretold it toher fhe thought it impoflibie,Gen. t 8A 2.SoChrifl the lonne ofAbraham commonly fo called. The onelySonne of God by nature, who is the fatherofall the faithfull, who aretaught to fay; Our father, &c. Theonely true promifed feed longbefore prophecied of, and expeaed ofbeleevers before his inanifeflation about foure thou - fand yeares. Borne and incarnate not by the strength of niture, but by the power of the holy Ghoft after anun- conceivable
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