germ. CLXXIV. and the Merit of Chri/ç, confiient. 4.89 without which we fhatl never be made partakers of them : but that the Satjstaetton of Chrift is the only meritorious Caufe of thefe bletfings. And to perfwade men to the &lief of this, I (hall endeavour to fatisfic them of thefe two things. I. That Chrift bath properly merited thefeBleffings for us. I!. That heonly bath done ir. The j rfl of thefe Propofitions is direftly levell'd againft the Socinians : the fecund againft the Papifis. 1 fhall fpeak but brieflyof them. I. That Chrift hath properly merited thefe Bleffìngs for us. And this being purely matterof Revelation, we are torelyupon Scripture only for the proof of it. Matt. 2o, 28. The Son of man came not to be minifler'd unto, but to minifer, and togivehis life a ranfom for many, At rpov ct;n .ro»L v, a price of Redemption, inftead of that which fhouldhavebeen paid by us. John 6. 51. And the breadwhich Iwillgive is my Flefh, which I will give for the life of the world. John 1o. t 1. Chrift is caled the good Shepherd that lays down his life for his Sheep. John 15: iz, 13, This is my command. Ment, that ye love o,.e another, as I have loved you. Greater love. hash no man than this, that a man lay downhis life for his friends. Matth. 26. 28. Fer this is my Blood of the New Teflament, which is Jhedfor many, for theRcmiion of Sins, Rom. 5. 6. For when we were yet without flrength indue time Chrill died for the ungodly. 1 Cor. 15. 3. For I delivered unto you pill of all, that which Ialfo received, how that Cbrifl died for our Sins according to the Scriptures. z Cor. 5. 14. 15. For the love of Chrifl confiraineth us, lecaufe we thus judge 5 that if one dyed for all, then were all dead: And that be died for all, that they which live, fhould not hence- forth live unto themfelvrs, but unto him which diedfor them, and rife again. Eph. t. 7. In whom we have Redemption through his blood, the forgivenefi of Sins, accor- ding to the Riches of his grace. Col. 1. zo, 2 t, 22. And (having made peace through the blood of his Croft) by him to reconcile all thingsunto himfelf, byhim, I fay, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. Andyou that were fomctime alienated, and enemies inyour mind by wicked works, yet now loath he reconciled, in the body of his flefb through death, to prefent you holy and unnameable and unrepra- vable in his fight. 1 Their. 5.9 OC. For God bath not appointedus to wrath : but to obtain Salvation by our Lord 'PiusChr?ll, who diedfor us. Heb. z. 9. That he by the Grace of God fhould tafle Death for every Man. Heb, 9. I I, 1 z, 13, 74, 55. But Chriíl being come an High Prie,fl of good hingt to come, by a greater andmore Petted Tabernacle, not rustle with Hands, that is to fay; not of this Building; nei ther by the Blood of Goats and Calves, but by his own Blood he entred in once into the holy Place, having obtained oternal Redemptionfor us.- Forif the Blood of Bulls andof Goats, and the A/hes of an Heifer, fpriniting the ?Mclean, fanílifyeth to the purifying of the Flefh 5 kwwitch more (hall the Bloodof Chri/, who through the eter- nal Spirit offered hi ofell with,ut Spot to God, purge your Cor.fcience from dead works, to ferve the living God t And for this caufe he is the Mediator of the New Te/la- ment, that by means of Death, for the Redemption of the TranJgrejons that were under the All Tejiament, they which are called might receive the Promife of eternal Inheritance. And ver. 25, 26, 27, z8. Nor yet that hefhould offer himself often, as the High Prie/l entreth into the Holy Place every fear with Blood of others: (For then mutt he often have 'offered fine the Foundation of the World: )but now once in the End of the World, bath he appeared to put away Sin by the Sacrifice of himfelf. And as it is appointed unto Men once to die, but after this the judgment: fo Chrill was once offered to boar the Sins cf many ; andunto them that lookfor him, (ball he appear the fecond time, without Sin, unto Salvation. Heb. to. i 1, 1z. And every Priefl flandeth daily miniring and offering oftentimes the fame Ss:rificeo, which can never take away Sin, : but this Man after be had offered one Sacrifice for Sins, for ever fat down at the Right Hand of God. 1 Pet. 1. 18, 59. Foralasucb as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible Things, as Silver and Gold, from your vain Converfation received by Tradition from your Fathers: but with the precious Blood of Chriíl, as of a Lamb without Blemifh and without Spot. 1 Pet. z. z t, 34. Becaufe Chri/ alto 'offered for us 5 who his own Pelf bare our Sins, in his own Body, on the Tree. 1 Pet. 3. 18. For Chrill elfo bath once "offered for Sins, the jufifor the Vnjuri, that he might bring us to God. r Job, z. 1, 2. My little R r r Children,
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