h The proof of the neceſſity of Chriſt's ſuffering Death hut once, 1s introduced 1n this Verſe by the Conjun&ion And. It was according to God's decree and publiſhed Starute of Men's but once dying ; for God the Supream Lord, Governour and Judge of them, ter, conſtituted, and appointed by an unalterable and irrevocable Decree, as Law-giver, and Sentence, as Judge to all of the finſul Fama Race, the corrupt Seed of Apoſtate 4dam, their grand Reprclent1- tive, whom God threatned with this Penalty upon his finning aud tranſgreffing his Law, Gen. 2. 17. which Sentence was denounced upon him, Gen. 3. 19, compare Rom. 5. 12,14. and 6. 23, Tits Sentence was but once to be undergone by himſelfand all his fintul Off-ſpring, and by their Surety, and no more ; fo that the ſecond Adam needed but once to dye by this Statute. No Man can kcep himſelf from this, it being the genera] Rule of God's procecding with all Perſons. The ſupream Legiſlator may make what Excep- tions and Proniſo's to his Law he pleaſeth. Thoſe that were tran{la- ted by him, did ſuffer a Change proportionable to Death, as Enoch, Chap. 11. 5. Gen. 5. 24. and Elias 2 Kings 2. 11, 12. and thoſe that ſhall be changed at Chriſt's coming, muſt undergo the like, as 1 C7. 15. $1, to 55. and 1 Theſſ. 4.17. Thoſe that were Raiſed from Death by Chriſt, Peter and Paul, &c. God might glorihe h1s Name by reiterating it; but whether they did dye again, 15 not cer- tain. This is to be the general ſettled Law and Rule of God. 7 In order, after Souls by Death are ſeparated from their Bodies, they come to Fa and thus every particular one is handed over by Death - to the Bar of God, the great Judge, and {o 15 dil- patched by his Sentence to its particular State and Place with 1ts re- tpeRive People, Rom. 14. 12. At the great and general Affize, the Day of Judgment, ſhall the General and Uniyerſal One take place, Ads 17. 31. when all Sinners in their intire Perſons, Bodies and Souls United, ſhall be adjudged to their final unalterable and eter- nal State, Rem. 14. 10. and 2 Cor. 5. 10. Jude ver. 6. Rev. 20+ TT, to 15. . 28 * } So Chriſt was once offered to bearthe fins of many, and unto them that look for him / ſhall he ,
appear the 2 ſecond time with fin 7 unto falvation. x pet. 1s an illative Connetion between the mg n of TOY I 27, and this Conſequent, as it was appornte.l ta Men once t) ws m_ os was appointed to Chriſt once to offer himielf. God's Statute __ R070. 54 mineth both of theſe ;. Chriſt the High-Prieſt oppoſcd t9 _ a
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to God to expiate them, bearing their Puniſhment which God laid on him, I/z. 53.5. and fo took away Sins, Guilt, Filth, Power, and Condemnation from many, whom the Father gave to him,and ne un- dertook for, in it, Matth, 20. 28, and 26. 28. Fohn 10. 15, 19. / And to his believing penitent Expe&ants, tuch as long tor tits com- ing, Phil. 3. 20. Tit. 2. 13. ſtretching out their Heads as the Mo- cher of Sijer.z, Judg. 5. 28. with an holy Impatience of ſeeing him, {uch as by Faith and Prayer are haſtning it, 8. 23. 2 Cor. 5, I, tO 10. i Pet. I. 3, to 10, ſhall he once more viſibly appear to them and the World, 4&s 1. 11. Rev. 1. 7. glorioufly, without need to ſuffer or dic a2ain for them, having at his departure after his firſt coming,
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hit by them, the guilt of paſt and preſent Sins rem. i! whereas Chriſtians now renewinz, do renew their baith : pentance, but not their Sacrifice for it; tie Virtne of which in : tull and final Abſolution, applicd to them by the Spirit, makes them to have, upon their final Accounts, no Conſcietce of Sin for ever
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carricd all their Sins into the Land of Forgettulneſs; m and to their Perſons” will he bring intire and compleat Salvation, riting and unit- | inz Bodies and Souls together, Phil. 3. 21. and then take them as Al- fiſtants to himſelt in the Judgment Work on Men and Angels in the | Air ; and having dilpatched that Work, return with them to the Holy Holieft in Heaven, there to be compleatly blefled, 1n priihng, ſerving, gloritying, and enjoying God in Chriſt, and the Biciiedncls that attends that State for ever, and eycr, as 1 Cor. 6. 2, 3. 1 Thejje q+ 27»
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The 4\nciont Sacrifices bo:h annual and daily were inſufficient to purge the Saul, and rec:ncile Men to God, 1 —4. Therefore it was that the Drvine Wi'l, as us proved from Scripture, required Chriſt's one Sa- ertfice of himjelf, by which we are ſanftiftied for ever, 5 I 4+ Without which, the new Covenant andits Promiſes of Remiſſun mad:
d, cannot land, 15 18. By this way which Chriſt hath
emſecrated for us we muſt go unt» God with Confidence and Faith,
19 22, And muſt be ſiedfaſt in our Profeſſion, Hope, and Love,
and mutual Aſſrinblies, 23 25. The fearful Tudginent of God,
which Apoftates are to expe&, 25 21. Thrir fo,mer Patience and
Comp.:ſſim on the Afftided, on himſelf alſo, 32 35. Promijes
which thiſe that are conſtant ſhall receive, proved out of Scripture,
35 —— 39.