1S SALVATION Or SIAN BY CHRIST. we read or assert that Christ was put to death for us, as a sacri- ficefor our sins, we cannot say, therefore he did not save us as a high-priest: Or when we read or assert that he saved us as our high-priest, we cannot say, therefore he was not a sacrifice ; for the seriptures assure us; Christ himself is both the high- priest and the sacrifice also; Eph. v. 2. Christ hàth given himselffor us as an offering and sacrifice to God. Again, One christianwill perhaps be ready to maintain, that Christ saves us as a great friend and benefactor, who has, by the price of his blood, purchased the blessings of grace and glory for us, and bestows them upon us ; another may chase to fix his eye more upon Christ as a redeemer, and say, he has bought or pur- chased our persons from the hands of divine justice, or he has redeemed us from the curseof the law, and from the bonds where- in we, as criminals, were held by the law of God : But neither of them should Clare to say, he bought or purchased these bles- sings for us, and therefore he did not purchase our persons ; for he has done both these under different characters. Yet further, one christian may delight more to fixhis eye and hope on Christ as asurety or representative of his elect, or of those whom lie certainly and finally saves, and on that account he suffered death particularly in their room and stead, and secured to them certain deliverance and salvation ;, yet he cannot therefore affirm, thatChrist did not, in any sense, diefor all men, as a general friend of man, or suffer death for their good ; nor can he say, that the benefits of his death do not any way reach to all mankind. Another perhaps will say, since all are dead, he diedfor all as a,common Mediator between God and man, or as a general benefactor to procure conditional salvation for all men, and offer it to them ifthey are willing to come to him and receive it ; but he cannot say, that he'was not aproper surety, or repre- sentative ofhis elect, whereby lie has secured certain salvation to them only : For as I have shown in former papers, that he by his righteousness and death lias directly and absolutely procured thissalvätîon for his elect, as their head and representative, but yet he has also procured salvation, with all the glories of it,:con- ditióüally, foi the'i-est of mankind, upon which foundation these blessings are,óltFered,tó all men in the gospel. II. There is another sort of difficulty from which these vari- ous representations of the salvation of Christ may deliver and relieve us, viz. The actions or the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ, havp;not..precisely the same relation, character, or effect, with regard to one ot` Lis offices, as they have with regard to another ; and therefore what is pronounced safely, with regard to the deatli'of Christ underonecharacter, cannot be with safety pronounced concerning it under another. As for example, When soglorious and illustrious a person as Jesus Christ appears as our
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