And the Word was made flesh, &c. full of grace and truth.-John

i. 14.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, &c. he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, &c. Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, Behold, how he loved him!-John xi. 33. 35, 36; Luke vii. 12—14.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, &c. Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you, &c. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.-John xiv. 1. 27; Matt. xiv. 27.

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now: howbeit, &c.-John xvi. 12, 13.

When Mary sought Jesus, weeping, he appeared to her, to comfort her, &c. He shewed himself also to his disciples, his hands and side; and the second time to Thomas, when he would not believe the report of the rest.-John xx. 11. 14-16. 19. 25.

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Christ gave charge three times to Peter, that if he loved him, he should feed his lambs, and his sheep.-John xxi. 15-17.

Ye denied the Holy One and the Just.-Acts iii. 14.

I obtained mercy, for this cause, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them who should hereafter believe on him.—1 Tim. i. 16.

In that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succour them who are tempted.-Heb. ii. 18; iv. 15.

Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, &c.-Heb. vii. 26.

Christ, as of a lamb without blemish, and without spot.-1 Pet. i. 19. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us, &c.-1 John iii. 16.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.-Rev. iii. 20.

CHAPTER VI.

How CHRIST wrought this Salvation for Sinners, and what he was made and is; what he undertook, and did in order to do it.

SECT. 1.-He is Mediator. THERE is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.-1 Tim. ii. 5.

By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.—Heb. vii. 22.

He is the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.—Heb. viii. 6.

And for this cause he is the Mediator of the new testament, that, &c.— Heb. ix. 15.

And to Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant, (or testament.)—Heb. xii. 24.

SECT. 2.-He took upon him the Nature of Man, a Body of Flesh, and humbled himself.

GoD said to the serpent, &c. I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.-Gen. iii. 14, 15.

Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call his name Immanuel.-Isa. vii. 14; ix. 6.

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots; and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, &c.-Isa. xi. 1, 2; Acts xiii. 22, 23.

His visage was so marred, more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men.-Isa. lii. 14.

He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, &c. We hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.— Isa. liii. 2, 3.

The Lord hath created a new thing

in the earth: a woman shall compass a man.-Jer. xxxi. 22.

They shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. Micah v. 1.

The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, &c. Mary was found with child of the Holy Ghost, &c. She had brought forth her firstborn son, and he called his name Jesus.-Matt. i. 18. 20. 23. 25.

Thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.-Luke i. 31. 35.

He was tempted of the devil.— Matt. iv. 1-9.

sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ, &c.— Acts ii. 29, 30.

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord, who was made of the seed of David, according to the flesh.Rom. i. 3; 2 Tim. ii. 8; Rev. xxii. 16.

God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.-Rom. viii. 3. Of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came.-Rom. ix. 5.

Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, &c.-2 Cor. viii. 9.

Though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth.-2 Cor. xiii. 4. God sent forth his Son, made of a woman,made under the law.-Gal.iv.4. But made himself of no reputation,

Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren James? &c. And they were offended in him.-Matt. xiii. 55-57. The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.Matt. xx. 28.

He rode upon an ass into the city of Jerusalem.-Matt. xxi. 2. 4. 7.

She brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn, &c. He went down with them, &c. and was subject unto them: But his mother kept, &c.-Luke ii. 6, 7. 51.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.-John i. 14.

Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. John iv. 6.

The bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.-John vi. 51.

The high priest prophesied that Jesus should die, &c. and gather the dispersed sons of God into one.— John xi. 49, &c.

David, &c. knowing that God had

vant, and was made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient, &c.-Phil. ii. 7, 8.

Hath he reconciled, in the body of his flesh, through death, &c.—Col. i. 21, 22.

Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.—1 Tim. iii. 16.

Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, &c. He who sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, &c. As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death, &c. Verily, he took not on him the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham; wherefore, in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren.-Heb. ii. 9.11.14.16, 17.

Who, in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers, &c. Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience, &c.—Heb. v. 7, 8.

Sacrifice, &c. thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me, &c. A new and living way, which he

v. 2.

Many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.-2 John 7. SECT. 3. He is made an High Priest. AND I will raise me up a faithful priest, who shall do according to that which is in mine heart, and in my mind and I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.-1 Sam. ii. 35.

The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a Priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec.-Ps. cx. 4; Heb. v. 5, 6.

Thus saith the Lord, David shall never want a man, &c. Neither shall the priests, the Levites, want a man before me, to offer, &c.-Jer. xxxiii. 17, 18.

The man whose name is the BRANCH, &c. he shall be a Priest upon his throne; and, &c.-Zech. vi. 12, 13.

It behoved him in all things to be made like his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for sins: for in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succour them who are tempted.-Heb. ii. 17, 18; Luke iv. 1-12.

Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him that appointed him; as also Moses, &c. Heb. iii. 1, 2.

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, who is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God; let us hold fast, &c. For we have not an High Priest, which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities: but was in all points tempted like as we

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining unto God, that he may offer, &c. Who can have compassion on (or can reasonably bear with) the ignorant, and on them who are out of the way, &c. And no man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an High Priest: but he who said unto him, Thou art my Son, &c. Thou art a Priest, &c.-Heb. v. 1—6.

Hope, which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered; even Jesus, made an High Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.-Heb. vi. 19, 20.

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, &c. having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. After the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another Priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life: for he testifieth, Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Not without an oath, for those were made without an oath, but this with an oath, by him who said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a Priest, &c. And they truly were many priests because they were not suffered to continue, by reason of death; but this man, because he continueth for ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood, (or which passeth not from one to another,) wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost, (or for evermore,) who come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, &c. who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer, &c. for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: we have such an High Priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. A minister of the sanctuary (or holy things) which the Lord pitched, and not man. For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices, wherefore it is of necessity that this man should have somewhat also to offer.-Heb. viii.

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But Christ being come an High Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, &c.-Heb. ix. 11.

SECT. 4.-He offered himself as a Sacrifice to God, suffered for the Sins of Mankind, and so made Peace through the shedding of his own Blood, by which he entered into the Holiest for us.

I AM a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me, laugh me to scorn, &c. and shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord, that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him, &c. The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet, &c. they part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. --Ps. xxii. 6-8. 16. 18; Matt. xxvii. 39-43; Ps. cix. 25.

False witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. -Ps. xxvii. 12; Matt. xxvi. 60, 61.

For thy sake I have borne reproach, shame hath covered my face: I am become a stranger unto my brethren, an alien unto my mother's children: for the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproach thee, are fallen upon me, &c. Reproach hath broken my

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the Son of man, &c.-Ps. lxxx. 17.

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.-Isa. 1. 6; Matt. xxvi. 67, 68; Job xvi. 10.

He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, &c. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted: he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes (or bruises) we are healed, &c. We have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all, (or he hath made the iniquity of us all to meet upon him.) He was oppressed, he was afflicted, &c. he was taken from prison, and from judgment, &c. he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people was he stricken, (or was a stroke upon him.) He made his grave with the wicked, &c. It pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering (or when his soul shall make an offering) for sin, &c. shall bear their iniquities, &c. He hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.-Isa. liii. 3-12; Ps. cxvi. 3; Luke xxii. 37; Matt. xxvii. 38.

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? &c. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel? &c. I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the people there was none with me.-Isa. lxiii. 1—3; Gen. xlix. 11.

Shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, &c. and he shall confirm the covenant with many, &c. He shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease. Dan. ix. 26, 27.

By the blood of thy covenant (or whose covenant is by blood) I have sent forth thy prisoners.-Zech. ix. 11. What are these wounds in thine hands? then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts smite the shepherd, &c.Zech. xiii. 6, 7; Matt. xxvi. 31. 47 -49.

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From that time forth began Jesus to shew, &c. how that he must suffer many things of the elders, &c. and be killed, &c. When Peter had said, Be it far from thee, Lord; he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan, &c. thou savourest not the things that be of God, &c.-Matt. xvi. 21-23; Luke xvii. 25.

Likewise also shall the Son of man suffer of them, &c. the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men, and they shall kill him.-Matt. xvii. 12. 22, 23; Acts iii. 13. 15.

The Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests, &c. and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him. Matt. xx. 17-19; Luke xviii. 3133: Acts x. 39.

The chief priests, &c. assembled and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty and kill him. Jesus, &c. began to be sorrowful and very heavy then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death, &c. Put up thy sword; thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scripture be fulfilled, that thus it must be? They spit in his face, and buffeted him. Matt. xxvi. 3, 4. 37, 38. 52–54. 67; John xii. 27; Mark xiv. 33, 34.

The soldiers mocked him, they spit upon him, and smote him on the head, &c. They gave him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall, &c. they crucified him between two thieves, &c. they parted his garments, &c. He cried with a loud voice, saying, My God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me? &c. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. -Matt. xxvii. 27–30. 34, 35. 46. 50; John xix. 23, &c.; Ps. lxix. 21.

The Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many.-Mark x. 45. I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!-Luke xii. 50.

And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood, falling down to the ground.-Luke xxii. 44.

Ought not Christ to have suffered these things? Thus it is written, and thus it behoveth Christ to suffer.Luke xxiv. 26. 46.

My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.-John vi. 51.

I lay down my life for the sheep, &c. I lay down my life, that I may take it again, &c. no man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself, &c.--John x. 15. 17, 18.

It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, &c. He prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; and not for that nation only, but, &c.-John xi. 50-52.

Greater love hath no man than this, That a man lay down his life for his friends.-John xv. 13. The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink?—John xviii. 11.

Those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.—Acts iii. 18; x. 38, 39; xiii. 29; Gal. iii. 13.

The church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.-Acts xx. 28.

Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation for sin,