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SEEM.
II.1 GOt'S
ELECTION
Or
MEN IN JESUS
CHRIST.
a
woman
;"
Gal.
iv.
4. and
to
be
"
made
in
the likeness
of
sinful
flesh;"
Rom.
viii.
3.
and in the fashion
of
a
man,
that
he
might
be
bone
of our
bone,
and
flesh
of
our
flesh,
and-become a
proper
head
for such members as
we
are
;
Eph.
v.
30:
and
that
he
might
be
our brother, and
kinsman, who
should
have
a right
to redeem
our lost in-
heritance. "
He
who was
in
the
form
of
God,
consented-
to take
upon
him the form
of
a
servant;"
Phil.
ii.
7.
and
passed through
a.'
life
of various labour, reproach, and
suffering,
as well
as
performed the duties
of
the
moral
and ceremonial
law,
not
only
that
he
might
become a
pat-
tern
to
us,
of
patience and
universal
holiness,
but
that
he might
do all the
will
of
God,
and
fulfil
the righteous-
ness
of that
law
which
mankind
had broken.
Ps.
xl.
7,
8.
He undertook
also
to become
a preacher of righ-
teousness and
of grace, and
to explain
the
law
of
God,
and proclaim the
gospel
of
salvation among
men
;
Ps.
xl.
9.
Is.
lxi.
1.
And besides all this, he
consented
to
take upon
him
the
sins
of
men,
that
is;
by
way
of
imputation,
as
a
sacrifice,
.
to
bear our
sins in his
body, on
the
cursed tree, to
be
made
a
sin-offering
for
us;
and
to
expose himself
to
pain-
ful
sufferings,
and
a
bloody
death
on
that
account,
that
he
might make
a
proper atonement
for
sin
;
2
Gor.
v.
21.
1
Pet.
ii.
24.
IIeb.
x.
5-7-12.
Rom.
iii.
25.
"
The
good
Shepherd came to lay
dóvn
his life
for his
sheep
;"
John.
x.
15.
And in
John
xiv.
16.
-when
he
was
about
to
leave
this world, he
promised
to
intercede
or
pray for
them.
And when the
Father should exalt
him
to
the
kingdom;
and
put
all
power
into
his
hand,
he
engaged to
call
them
by
his
word,
to
bestow on
them repentance,
and
forgive-
ness,
to send down
the
sanctifying
Spirit upon
them,
and
in general to
rescue them from every
evil
;
to bear
them
through
all
the difficulties
and
dangers
of
life,
and to
convey
them
safe
to the
possession
of
the
appointed in-
heritance.
It
would
not
be possible, in
this
short
dis-
course, to cite
at
large
all
the scriptures
that
reveal
and
support
these truths.
Whatsoever our
blessed
Saviour
performed
in
the execution
of
his
mediatorial
offide,
we
May
justly suppose it
was
an
article
and
agreement
in
that
original
covenant made betwixt
him
and
his
Father
:
And
in
many
of
the
instances which
I
have mentioned the