fore received, believed; heeding them ſoas to refain and praGtiie them ; ſo to believe, profefs, be, keep and do what he ſpeaks fron the Father to them, having Souls knit and cleaving to them, Fames I. 22, 25, c All that Mind and Will of God which his Son revea'-
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# This Conſequent anſwereth the Antecedent in ver, 2. but in ore part of it,that which concerns the Puniſhment. of theTran{vre!t- ſors of the Law, thus ; If the Word by Angels, much more the I or.l by the Son ; and if Sins againſt that were puniſbed much more Sins 4- gainſt this, The Spirit including the SanCtion of the Goſpe!'s pow Er in the Judgment which it prondunceth upon its Deſpiſers, whicl it could not do, if it were not eftabliſhed, The Interrogative, tow,
introducing the Conſequent, is vehemently negative, By no neans 3, or there 1s no poſſibility of our eſcaping in the Cale propPſed, compare the cloſe of 1/aiah 20, 6, There isno avoiding the Righ- teous Puniſhment, which the juſt God doth threaten Golpel finners with, ſuch as is Recorded in Mar, 10. 15.and 11. 22, 24, 2 The{]; I «7, S, 9. Chap. 10. 28, 29, none can eſcape it, neither I nor you, if ſuch Tranſgreffors ; external Officers, or Church-priviledges will not excuſe any from the juſt Puniſhment and Retribution of God. & It being careleſs, ſo as to deſpiſe and make light of the Goſpel, or to reject it, Ch, 8.9, Mat. 22. 5. Oppoſed this is to the Sins of Commiſſion and Omiſſon about the Law; any denial of receiving ir, or of a Progreſs in the neceſſary Duties it requires, ſo to negle& them as to end in Apoſtacy. For the Goſpel-Law of Chrift reveal» ing and promiſing Salvation to Believers, oppoſed here to the Law given by Angels, will make ſafe all ſpiritual good, both for Time and Eternity, to the fincere Believers and Obeyers of it. Thz Goſpel, is called Satvation Metonymically,becaule the Subje&t-matter of it is Salvation, Eph, 1, 13. and it hath a cauſal Power an Vertue to ſave, Ats 13. 26. Kom. 1. 16. oppoled to the Law, which was the Miniftration of Death and Condemnation, 2 Cor. 2.7, 9:
and by reaſon of the Veil on their Hearts, became killing to them. The Word by the Son is Salvation, becauſe a full and clear Diſco- very to it, This Salvation is Tranſcendenr, being not a terrene or temporary, but a heavenly eternal Salvation, delivering thoſe wha truly obey it, from the worſt of Enemies, the foreſt, an moſt laſt. ing puniſhment,and inftating them in eternal Happineſs and Bleffed- neſs in Heayen, This was great for clearneſs of Light, 2 Cor, 4. 4. and dikuſive Efficacy and Succeſs, } An Aggrayation of the neg- le of this Salvation from the Lord publiſhing it, It had its Ke and Beginning from the Fountain of all Truth, an was firft by Voice and Preaching made known to the Hebrews and ſuch Gentiles as came to hear the Promulgation of it, Marth, 4. 17. at Chriſt's ſolemn entring on his Miniftry above three years before his Death and Reſurre&tion, And it may refer higher ; for as it was moſt clear- ly, plainly, ſweetly, and eminently Preached by himſelf, b-youd what was taught by the Prophets in the Old 'Leftament, or Fol ; yet he firſt Preached it himſelt 72 the beginning to our Apoſtate Pa- rent in Paradiſe, Gen.2.1 and he Preached it inal! the Proptets,
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publiſhing of it mc? ; yet this Priority may he in reſpect cf thc Miniſtry which he orlained to follow him, and not of that which went before. It was ſo Preach<d by the Zerd himſelf, the Mediator. Lora of Life and Death, Head of Angels, and all Principalities and Powers, the great Prophet ſwaving all things by the word of ls Son himſelf, Chap. 1, 2. and {o 18 preferred hefore the Law, in re-
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