in their Sufferings-and Temptations. Theſe Sufferings of his had a purchaſing Power and Ability in them for us, He thereby buying help and ſuccour for us to al] ours that ſhould be correſpondent unto his ; fo as by is Bloody Death under Temptation he bought off ours, et- ther not to overtake us, .or it under them, he 1s habitually and mert- toriouſly able thereby to ſuccour his, moſt compaſſionately and read1- ly giving forth all reaſonable, ſnitable, and ſufficient ſupport under, and remedy againſt all theſe Temptations, which for Sin, or from it, his Brethren are afflicted with, and come to him for help. This 1s the moſt powerfuP* Preſervative againſt Deſpair, and the firmeft ground of Hope and Comfort, that ever Believing, Penitent Sinners could defire or have ; from all which theſe Hebrews might have been convinced what little reaſon they had to be "offended with his Hu- miliation or Death, who was their Meſſiah ; and though for State and Time, a little lower than the Angels, vet in the Human Nature, was thereby exalted to be the Lord and Head above them
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Chrif the great Prophet and Doftor of the Church, as was Moſes, but In- finitely greater than He 1-———$. by the Example and Compariſon of their Sin who were Incredulos and Difobedient to Moſes, and their puniſhment, 7 11. The Hebrews are exhorte& fo Faith, Obe- dience and Perſeverance in the Goſpel of Christ, that they may enter into the promiſed Reff,, 12———19.
* Phi en holv brethren a, partakers of * the
Ul, 3. Ts ==T 2 M EE , : 4, | heavenly calling 6, confider f the apoltle « Rom.1 s. 4nd high-prieſt of our proteffion Chriſt Jeſus d.
a Several Uſes the Holy Ghoſt makes from verſe 1, of this Chap-
chap. 4.14. ter, to the end of Chap. 4. Of the Goſpel Doftrine of God the Son
and 6, 20, incarnate, ſet by the Kather in Office, to deal for Sinners towards
' and 8. 2, God as their Great Prophet ; the Counſel he giveth, is comprehended ' and, 11, in the fix firſt Verſes of this Chaprer ; and as dire&ing theſe Hebrews
fo their Duty, fo further explaining and confirming his Office to them, by comparing ot him with ſes, and ſettitig him as above Angels, ſo above him, and to heſo valued, eſteemed, and preferred by theſe Hebrews : Sceing this great Goſpel-Prophet was for a little while made lower than the Anzels in his Humanity, and 1t was in- finitely beneficial to us upon tht account of what he ſuffered in it in our ſtead, and purchafed by it for our Good ; Therefire ſhould thoſe who are partakers of it, being related in the Fleſh to him as Hebrews, deſcending with them from Abraham, conſider, but much more as Chriſtians, Believing and Adopted itt him to be God's Chl- dren, and tanttified by his Spirit, 1 Pet. t. 1, 2, 3, 4- and 2 Pet. 1, i. b And made thus a Chriſtian Fraternity by the heavenly calling of them out of the World by the Goſpel; when by his Spirit he en- lightned their Minds, and renewed their Wills, and made them obedient to it, ſoas for the temper of their Souls they are made holy, and for their Condition happy ; the work of God's Power and Mercy eminently appearing in it : God therein preventing Man, ſo as he'influenceth him to hear him from Heaven, walk worthy bf Heaven, and at laft to reſt in Heaven for ever. © Keavoroere 1M- ports not a bare ſingle a& of the Mind to think on, or underſtand, but a repeated one to think, azain and again, expreſſed by that Pert- phraſis of laying it to-Heart, preſſing on their Spirits the due effort of Faith and Obedience ariſing out of this Obſervation, 1/a. 52. 1s. Of God's Meſſenger, his own Son ſent from Heaven to be Incarnate, with Authority to execute, in his Humane Nature, his Prophetical, 45 all his Offices, and with Authority to ſend forth his Apoſtles to do their part, John 20: 21. which is no more than is intimated in that Title, the Meſſenger of the Covenant, Tſaiah 42. 19. and Mal. 3. 1. That was to propoſe it to, and confirm it wit! them. This was he by whom Moſes defired God's MeTaze might be f-nt to them, Exod. 4. 13. and whom he foretold ſhould bring it, Deut., 18. 15. Affs 3. 22) 23. & The Son is the great Goſpel-Hiz*- Frief, to deal in all matters with God for them, Cha#y. 5.17%; The OF:2:£ divided thong other Perſons in the Old TeſtantOdt-Chiutcr wet all anited in his
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the Called and SanRtiticd Ones of God, of which all preceding were faint Reſemblances and Types ; He, the moſt excellent Miaitter of the Chriſtian Faith and Religion profetied by them : being Anointed unto all theſe Offices in the Fleſh by the Father with the Holy Ghef:. Chap. 1. 9. and being 7ejws 2 Saviour, out Emmanuel, God on our fide, faving his People from their Sins, and re-unitins them to God Mat. 1.21, 23. oh. 17. ZTRzAF, 23% 7 ws
e The Spirit intorceth the Duty counſeiled on them from the Fi-