2 The Apoſtle deſigning the Convittion of theſe Hebrews by this Diſcourſe, enters on it ſolemnly ; that ifa GOD can awe them, the conſideration of him ſhould gain credit to his Doctrine. The God he ſpeaks of, is to be apprehended here Perſonally as well as Eſ- ſ-ntially, God the Father, the One Admirable Soveraign, Immutable Being, the Author of Firſt and Second Revelation ; Order is kept here in the Subſiſtence of the Relations, as in their Works. 6 Ilo- avprens, by many parts, turns and changes of Time, Seaſons and Opportunities, and by many parcels of Revelation 5 God's Will was diſcovered by Piece-meal, and not all at once, He vouchſafed one Promiſe to Adam, and ſo gradually opened further to Enoch, Noab, Abraham, David, pointing out a Chriſt to come, to come of Abra- bam's Seed in David's Family : He diſcovered here a little and there a little, 1/2. 28.13. © mavredmes, ſuitable to the manifeſt Wil- dom of God, in divers forms and manners was his Revelation to them; ſometimes by ſenſible Repreſentations to them waking,as by Angels, Fire in the Buſh, the Pillar of Fire, and Cloud, Terribly, as at Mount Sinai, Chap. 12. 18, to 22. Sometimes by Dreams and Viſions, Numb. 12. 6, By Urim and Thuwmim, by Voice from the Ark, by Types and Signs from Heaven, by Riddles, and dark Speeches, and Levitical Ceremonies ; ſometimes by immediate illap- ſes on the Soul, powerfully influencing it with a Divine Light.
[ee the Flood, Nob, before and after Abrabam, I/avc, Facob, Fo. Jeph, Moſes, David, &Cc, to theſe did God infallibly declare it, ant they did infallibly deliver it to the Church by Word and Writin ; God was by gracious inhabitation in them, in their Hearts, Tongues and Hands, 2 Pet, 1.21,
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þ The Goſpel- Day, laſt, as after the Days of the old World, and afrer the Law given to {ſracl by Moſes; the Days of the Fourth Kindom of the Roman Empire, in the heighth of which Chriſt came into the Word, and at the end of it ſhall accompliſh his Kings dom, Dan, 2, 40, 44. The laſt, becauſe the PerfeQion cf thole Types which went before them, when Chriſt ſettled in the Church thatReligion which muſt remain unalterable tothe end of theWorl, Chap. 12, 25, to 29, The beſt days for cleareft Light and greateft Mercies, #2 Revealed his Will to us once and intirely, Fob? 1.17, 18, Fade v, 3, 4. Diſcovering the excellent things of Cod more clearly than they were before, Ephbeſ. 3. 3, tO11, 1 75. 1. 10, It, 12. & The Believing Hebrews were ſo favoured beyond their Fathers, to have the beſt Revelation of God in Chriſt mace to them, Manh, 13.16, 17. Luke 10. 23,24. 1 Our Lord Jeſus Chrilty who cometh out of the Father as a Son, Fob? 1. 14. and 16. 25, He is his Boſom-Son, neareſt his Heart, Fob 1. 18, the complete Word of Him creating the new World as well as the old, Fohn 1. 1. His Wiſdom who teacheth without any miftake, declaring all o God, being Truth it ſelf, and exhibiting of it, what he hath ſeen as well as heard, Fob 3, 11. m This Son who naturally iſſucth from his Fatheg by a Divine and an unutterable Generation, Prove 3. 22, to 32, and 35, 4. On him all the Father's Love doth ter- minate, Coloſ, 1,13. He is to be the Founder and Builder of God's Family, propagating Being to a Holy Seed for Him, Chap. 3. 3, f0 7+ 1 The Father hath choſen and ordained him as God-Man, t9 Heir-ſhip, by an inviolable Ordinance of his Decree, as 1 Per. 1.29.
4 Revealed and declared infallibly his Mind and Will, concerning
Will decreed. e All that time paſt, between Adam and Chriſt, a- bout 4000 years before, f The Holy Anceſtors of theſe Hebrews from Adam, down along the Old Teftament Church of Godz The Believers of old, ſuch as are regiftred, ch4p. 11. and all like them to the times of Chriſt, from Gen. 3. 15. to that time, g All thoſe Holy Men to whom, and by whom God revealed his Will to his Church throughout the ſucceſſive Ages of the Old Teſtament-Day, ſ\uch as were but God's Servants, cbap. 2. 4. and had his Will and Mind by meaſure, who as they preached God's Will, were God's
compare Epheſ, 1,10, Giving him thereby Right and Title to all things, appointing to him His Nature, Cbap. 1. 16. compa- <P 10.5. His Offices in this Nature, his Kingly, 7ſal. 2. 5, 7 His Prieftly, Chap. 3. 1, 2, His Prophetical, Afffs 3. 22. being Helr by Nature, as God the Son, and Heir by an irreſiſtable Ordinance, as God-Man Mediator : ſo as he had a ſuper-added Right from the Fa- ther, which Right he was able to make over to us, but his natural Right he could not, Kom. 8, 17. And he was by Solemn Inveſti- ture put in poſſeſſion of it at his Aſcenſion, when he 1ate down on the Father's Right-hand, cbap. 12. 2. Marth. 28. 18, Ejhe/. 1. 20g
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