y This brings in the Proof,that the great Goſpe}-Minifter Chrift; God Man, did call his ſan@ified ones, Brethren ; and was by the ſame Nature ſo related to them. The Proof is in P/alm 22. 22, where the Apoftle afſerrs,Chrift ſpoke what was ſaid by the Prophet there, and that this Pſalm concerneth him, is evident by the Application of other Paſſages in it to him, both by himſelf and the Spirit; and who reads it, may ſee him crucified afreſh there, 7 7, as the Goſ- pel- Prophet, who have ſeen thee, and am of thee, Fobn: 1, 18, and who only underftand thy Name, will teach, and make it to be knows and admired, as that wereby thou art deſcribed, diſtinguiſhed, and ſet above all other Beings and Relations to them. A Name ſuitable to their State and Relation unto thee and me. Thee inall thy gla- rious Attributes related to them as to Moſes, Exod, 34. 5, 6. 7. eſpecially thy Name of Father, whereby thou ftandeft related to me and them as Brethren, fulfilled. John 20, 19, My Father and your Ea- ther, my God and your God, \When he ſent this Meſſage by Mary Magdalen to his Apoſtles and Diſciples, to whom he was related as 2 Brother in his Humanity, Sonſhip, and Heirſhip, Family and Houſ« hold,and amongft whom he is the Firft-begotten and Elder Brother, Brethren are one, and as one; and fo is he and his Sanfified Ones, V, Ig, Luke Jl. 31, 35. Job" 17. 22, 23. Rom. $.14. fo v. 15. 29. Gal, 4.5, 6, 7. Epheſ. 3- 14, 15. 4 In the reſpeQive parts and Congregations of his Myſtical Body, implicitely his Brethren, Chrift and they are from one Father Divine, he by Nature, they by Grace, and from one humane Parent, Luke 3. 23, 3$. and both of one Fleſh ; he ſolemaly ſung and praiſed his Father with them at his Supper, Marth. 26, 30, inthat repreſentative Church; Mark 14, 26, comp, Pal. 22. 22,
13 And again b, [ will put my truſt in hich : And
again c, Behold, I, and the children which God hath
given me d. |
b This is a further Proof,that Chriſt's ſanRified Ones ate his Bre-
"_ » ys Exerciſing himſelf in a neceffary Work proper to that Brotherhood
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Chap. II.
+ Tohn 1.
I 4.
Phil. 2. 7.
J-b2 55.
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Brotherhoo!! only, They ere all of the Fouſhold of Faith, Gal.6.10.
Th-ir \u 3015S 15 20 believe in God, All who do fo, are Brethren ;
Ehriſt doth fo, and ſo is a Brother to them; He and they rely on ©ege an rhe ſame God and Father to both : He dia believe,conhde,
4nd refit on Ged, that he woutd help þzs Fumantry to go through al:
MS Works and Sufferinys to the perfetting of that of Redemption. Some lay he ſpake this in the Perſon of David in Pſalm 18. 2. be- caulc the 49th ver, of it is applied to Chrift by the Spirit, in Kom. 15.4. But. others think that ſum is not ſo properly underſtood of
-hriſt, and that theſe words are not found in the Septuagint, which the Apoſtle trequently uſeth as being moſt familiar with theſe Z2e- trews,---- but that theſe words of his ruſting in God,and of his Chil- are! are to be found near together in 1/z. $. 197, 1$. which Chapter js a clear prophecy of this God-Mar the Redeemer, and punttually fulfiled by him on Earth. This ſeems moſt rationally to be the Place the Apofile rete1s as to both theſe Texts. c This 1s the third roof, which though it be literally /aiah's Words, who complained how himlelf and the Children of God in his days were [corned by the Workl for cleaving to kim,ver herein was he a Type of Chriſt, and in him was it eminently fulfilled. This the Word Behold inti- mates, it being a matter of great weight and importance tro be at- tinded, to be conſidered and underſtood by the Church. d land my Brethren, Children of the ſame heavenly Father, Fobn 11. 52. and 20. 17. 1 Fobn 3. 1. which my Father of free Grace choſe and delivered on my Purchaſe,and whom he had fitted and wrought by his Spirit,to be brought home by him unto Glory,though they were
the Wonder and Contempt of this World, Fobn 17. 2, 6, 8, 9, 11,
19, 22, 24.
14 Foraſmuch then as the children are partakers of fleſh and blood e, + healfo himſelf likewiſe took part of the ſame f, * that through death he might deſtroy *1C0r.15. him that had the power of death z, rhat is, the de-
vil b.
e The Spirit having proved the Children and Brethren ſan ified by Chrift to be Men, proceeds to prove, That the SanQifier of
them, was of the ſame Nate with themſelves, and ſo confirms what he aſſerted, ver, 11. That th:y were of onz. Foraſmuch as thoſe were choſen, born of God, and given to him, adopted into his Son!hip and Heirſhip, and by this as well as by their Humanity
derived joyntly with his own from, Adam, his Brethren, xexorveounxs, theje havirg it in common. I ve word imports the Reality, Integrity, Unicy andCommunity they all have of the Human Nature; they are all truly, only, and fully Men, and every individual Perſon hath this Humaniry. Theſe Fl:ſb and Blood, Metonymically ſet out the whole Human Nature, though the Body only be litterally expreſſed by it a Body ſubje&t to many Infirmities. f God the Son himſelf, -mez- 2.yotw;, had the next and neareſt correſpondent Condition with thetrs, even the ſame as to the kind of it, as like as Blood 15s to Blood pro-
perly and truly,only freed from qur finful Infirmities, as ver, 17, This Word diminiſheth him not, but ſheweth his Identity, Heb. 4. 15. METES Took part, he became a Partner with the Children, and took theu Nature: It isnot the ſame Word as before, z«xo1y@p:z4,a5 the Marciunites and Manichees corrupt it, as if he had this Narure only in common with them, making him only Man, Burt being God, beſides his Divine Nature, ©c. to it he took the Human, even their true and full Nature conſiſting of a Body and a Soul, and ſo United them, that in him they became one Perſon ; ſo that hence reſults 2 double Union of Chrift with Man, one Nature with all the Human Race, and fo is the Head of them : And by his dying for them, all the Human Race are made falvable, which Angels are not ; and thoſe who repent and believe on him are attually ſanified and United to him as his Ele@ and choſen Bo. dy, and ſhall be ſaved by him. g By his dying on the Croſs as Te-
ſtator of God's Covenant, and not by his Power as a God (which
was moſt glorious to himſelf, but moſt ignominous to the Devil,ac-
cording to the Promiſe,Gey. 3.15.) did he aboliſh or bring ro nought,