EpiffleofS. PateltoTitus. CHAP.3 4 was,and (hall be confummateand perfeeled when heauen,and earth,& 633 time (hall be nomore :But ifwe enquire the proper time and manner of the happie appearing ofit ro the founts of men ; then we mull an- fwer,that it was at the reuealing and appearingofour Lord Ictus Chril4; namely,partly more darkly by the preachingof theProphets vnto the auncient fathersand beleeuers s as Abel , Noah,Abraham, Mofes, Da- uid , who with the remnant of Ifrael enìayed the fame promifes, and precious faith with vs ; and partly more clearely by the incarnation of the forme ofGod, which was the glorious rilingof thisSonne of righ- teoufne(fe, who bothby his owne do&rineandmiracles, life and death; and thedoctrineofhis Apo(lles and Paflors, bath brightly (hined vpon all vs vpon whom-the endsof theworld are come : according to that prophefie of Malac. 4, a. The Sunneofrighteostfneffe (hall rif addin g al Co, that he brigerh health under his wings. For before, we fò ht not our health, we our felucs could make our wound wider, and growmore defperately ouergrowne in our deadly difeafes,but could not dreame of a Phylitian : but now the Father putteth forth his loue, fendeth forth hisbelouedSonne, inhim fetteth liking vponvs , couereth vs with his skirts, adornethvs with his graces, ftteth vs to our glorie, andCo daily by degrees drawethvs nearer him in fellowfhip , then euer we were- in the Rate of our innocency. To this purpofe it is Paid, that (Y riff brought a.ritn.rao. life to light, whereas elfe Adam and all his pofleritie had for crier laid under death and darkenefle : for when Adam little thought offaluation, yea when he was running fromGod,and hidinghimfelfe in his thickets, then Chrifl brought life to light, in that promifeof the promifed feede, reuealinghimfelfe to be the life ofAdam, and all his beleeuing pofieri- tie as afterward he both enlarged the promife, and aEluallymade it good in the full accompli(hment. And all this, I. in that Chrifl hath the rightof life, and glorie iti himfelfe : s. he bath it not for himfelfe onely, but forvs alto, whole head and husband by taking our flefh be is become. In the former, he ßandeth in the perfonof the Sonne ; in the latter, in the perfon of a mediator, bringing and applying to vs that life andglorie which as the Sonne he bath in himfelfe.Both thefe the author to theHebrewes implierh thofe two phrafes,that Chrifi is the brr ht- netaof theglorie , and the engrauer forme of his perfon : both becaufe he is the eternall Sonne ofthe eternal Father,as allo efpecially in that in our nature he (hewed forth the liuely,and lonely countenance of his Fa- ther: yea whatfoeuer is glorious, or gracious in the Father, as his ad- mirable wifedome,power,goodnes, andmercy, bath the Father mani- fefled in his Senne : without whom they had neuer been made knower veto vsfor nameeuerfew the Father,face theSonne , and he to whom rbeSr% Hebr.t.; ex. poundcd. Rr 4 r. !
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