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I die and rot beneath the clods,

Yet live and reign as long as God i.

SECT. XI.

The mystery of CHRIST, bis names, natures, and

offices.

Y Lord, appears; awake, my foul,
Admire his name, the Wonderful a,

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An infinite and finite mind b,

Eternity and time conjoin'd 6.

The everlasting Father ftyl'd,

Yet lately born, the virgin's child d.

tby fervant: for I do not forget thy commandments.

Heb. x.. 39. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe, to the faving of the foul. Pfal. xc. 3. Thou turneft man to deftruction; and sayest,* Return, ye children of men.

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John v. 24. Verily verily I fay unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that fent me, hath everlafting life, and fhall not come unto condemnation : but is paffed from death unto life. Rev. iii. 21. To him that overcom. eth will I grant to fit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am fet down with my father in his throne. And xxii. 5. And there fhall be no night there, and they need no candle, neither light of the fun; for the Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever.

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a Ifa. ix. 6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is given, and the goverment fhall be upon his fhoulder: and his name fhall be called Wonderful.

6 Pfal. cxlvii. 5. Great is our Lord, and of great power his understanding is infinite. Luke ii. 52. And Jefus increafed in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

e Gal. iv. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God fent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law.

d lfa. ix. 6. For unto us a child is born—; and his name hall be called The everlasting Father. Matth. i. 23. Behold, a virgin fhall be with child, and fhall bring forth a Son,

Nor father he, nor mother had,

Yet full with both relations clad e.
His titles differ and accord,

As David's fon, and David's Lord f.

Through earth and hell how conqu'ring rode
The dying man, the rifing God g!

and they fhall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, is, God with us.

• Heb. vii. 3. For this Melchifedec-without father, without mother, without defcent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. Luke ii, 48, 49. And when they faw him, they were amazed and his mother faid unto him, Son, why haft thou so dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have fought thee forrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that ye fought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's bufinefs?

f Matth. xxii. 41-45. While the Pharifees were gathered together, Jefus afked them, faying, What think ye of Chrift? whose fon is he? They fay unto him, The Son of David. He faith unto them, How then doth David in fpirit call him Lord, faying, The Lord faid unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his fon, &c.

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g Matth. xxi. 5. Tell ye the daughters of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and fitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an afs. v. 8, 9. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. And the multitude that went before, and that followed, cried, faying, Hofanna to the Son of David: bleffed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hofanna in the highest. And Jefus went into the temple of God, and caft out all them that fold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the feats of them that fold doves. Col. ii. 15. And having fpoiled principalities and powers, he made a thew of them openly, triumphing over them in it [his cross]. Rom. iv. 25. Jefus our Lord was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our juftification.

My nature is corruption doom'd h:
Yet when my nature he affum'd,
He nor on him (to drink the brook) i
My perfon nor corruption took k.
Yet he affum'd my fin and guilt 1,
For which the noble blood was fpilt.
Great was the guilt o'erflowing flood,
The creature's and Creator's blood m!

Eph. iv. 8. Wherefore he [David] faith, When he afcended np on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. Rom. i. 4. Jefus Chrift our Lord was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the refurrection from the dead.

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5 Eph. iv. 22. Put off concerning the former conversation, the old man which is corrupt, according to the deceitful lufts. i Pfal. cx. 7. He fhall drink of the brook in the way : therefore fhall he lift up the head.

A Rom. viii. 3. God fent his own' Son, in the likeness of finful fiefh, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh. John i. 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Fa ther) full of grace and truth. Luke i. 35. And the angel anfwered and faid unto Mary, The Holy Ghoft fhall come u pon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore alfo that holy thing which shall be born of thee, fhall be called the fon of God. Heb. ii. 16. For verily, he took not on him the nature of angels: but he took on him the feed of Abraham. And vii. 25, 27. For such an High Priest be came us, who is holy, harm!efs, undefiled, feparate from fin ners, and made higher than the heavens; who needeth not daily, as thofe high priests, to offer up facrifice, first for his own fins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himfelf.

Ifa hii. 5, 6. All we like sheep have gone aftray: we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all 2 Cor. v. 2. God hath made Chrift to be fin for us, who knew no fin; that we might be made the righteoufnefs of God in him. Matth. xx. 28. The Son of man came to give his life a ranfom for many.

m Rom, iii. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to be a propi.

The Chief of chiefs amazing came »,
To bear the glory and the shame o;
Anointed Chief with oil of joy p1

Crown'd Chief with thorns of fharp aunoy q.

Lo, in his white and ruddy face

Rofes and lilies ftrive for place r;
The morning-ftar, the rifing fun
With equal speed and fplendour run f

tiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteoufnefs. for the remiffion of fins that are past, through the forbearance of God. Acts xx. 28. Feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. Pet. i. 18, 19. For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corrup tible things, as filver and gold, from your vain converfation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the preci ous blood of Chrift, as of a Lamb without blemish and without fpot. 1 John iii. 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us.

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n Rev. i. 4, 5. Grace be unto you, and peace from-Jefus Chrift, who is the faithful witnefs, and the firft begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth.

o Zech. vi. 2, 13. Behold, the man whofe name is the BRANCH-he shall build the temple of the Lord, and he fhall bear the glory. Heb. xii. 2. Jefus, for the joy that was fet before him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame, &c.

Pfal. xlv. 7. Thou loveft righteousness, and hateft wick. ednels: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

1 Matth. xxvii. 29. And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, faying, Hail king of the Jews.

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Song ii. . I am the rofe of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. And v. 10. My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

Rev. xxii. 16. I [Jefus] am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning ftar. Mal. iv. 2. But unto you that fear my name, fhall the Sun of righteoufnefs a. rife with healing in his wings: and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall.

How glorious is the church's head,
The Son of God, the woman's feeds!
How fearchlefs is his noble clan to
The first, the laft, the fecond man u!
With equal brightness in his face,
Shines divine juftice, divine grace v;
The jarring glories kindly meet,

Stern vengeance and compaffion fweet w.

Col. i. 18. And Chrift is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence. John iii. 16. God fo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whofoever believeth in him, fhould not perish, but have everlasting life. Gen. iii. 15. And I [the Lord God] will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy feed and her feed: it fhall bruife thy head, and thou fhalt bruife his heel.

tlfa. liii. 8. He was taken from prifon and from judg meat and who fhall declare his generation? Prov. xxx. 4. Who hath afcended up into heaven, or defcended? who bath gathered the wind in his fifts? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his Son's name, if thou.canst tell!

u Rev. i. t. I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the laft. Cor. xv. 45. The laft Adam was made a quickening fpirit. v. 47. The fecond man is the Lord from heaven.

v 2 Cor. iv. 6. For God who commanded the light to fhine out of darkness, hath fhined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jefus Chrift. Rom. iii. 24, 25, 26. Being juftified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jefus Chrift: whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteoufnefs for the remiffion of fins that are past, through the forebearance of God, to declare, I fay, at this time his righteoufnefs: that he might be juft, and the juftifier of him which believeth in Jefus. Eph. i. 6, 7. To the praife of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved: in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of fins according to the riches of his grace.

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