"ced." So that what was given to Ifrael after the flesh, as a fecurity of their deliverance from Babylon, may well be applied to the redemption from fin and fatan thereby typified. Jer. 1. 34. "Their Redeemer is ftrong, the LORD of hosts

is his name, he fhall thoroughly plead their. "caufe." The New Teftament throws ftill a clearer light on this interefting fubject. Rom. v. 10. "For if, when we were enemies, we were "reconciled to God by the death of his Son: "much more being reconciled we fhall be faved "by his life." Heb. i. 2, 3. "God hath in

thefe laft days spoken unto us by his Son, "whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by "whom alfo he made the worlds. Who being "the brightnefs of his glory, and the exprefs "image of his person, and upholding all things "by the word of his power, when he had by

himfelf purged our fins, fat down on the right"hand of the Majefty on high." Heb. iv. 14, 16. Seeing then, that we have a great High

Prieft, that is paffed into the heavens, Jefus "the Son of God, Let us therefore come boldly "unto the throne of grace, &c." Heb. vii. 28. "For the law maketh men high priefts which

have infirmity; but the word of the oath, "which was fince the law, maketh the Son, "who is confecrated for evermore." Heb. ix. 14.

How much more fhall the blood of "Chrift, who, through the eternal fpirit, offered

himself without fpot unto God, purge your "confcience from dead works." 1 John i. 7. "And the blood of Jefus his Son cleanfeth us "from all fin." We are taught, Ephef. iv. 13. that the members of Chrift's myftical body, "all come in the unity of the faith, and of the know

ledge

"ledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, to "the measure of the ftature of the fulness of "Chrift." This knowledge of Jefus as Son of God, and nothing lefs than this, lays the foundation for a truft in him abfolutely unlimited. Without it we must have apprehenfions infinitely unfuitable, of the love and condefcenfion of the Son in coming to fave us, of the love of the Father in fending his Son, and of the affurance he has given by beftowing this chief and unfpeakable gift, that with him he will freely give us all things. See John iii. 16. 1 John iv. 9, 10. Rev. i. 5, 6. Rom. viii. 32. At the fame time, the neceffity of fhedding blood fo infinitely precious for man's redemption, gives us the highest pos, fible proof of the infinite evil of fin, of the fpotlefs purity and tremendous juftice of God, and thus of the need we have to pafs the time of our fojourning here in fear. See 1 Pet. i. 17-19.

8. Faith is defcribed, Ifa. liii. 1. as a believing the gospel report; and of that report we have a comprehenfive abftract, 1 John iv. 14. "We "have feen and do teftify, that the Father fent "the Son to be the Saviour of the world." This nearly co-incides with the former defcription. The Father's fending the Son is much the fame with his anointing him; and the Son's being Saviour of the world, is the fame with his executing the offices to which he was anointed for their falvation. Let us however confider the precife immediate meaning of the Father fending the Son to be the Saviour of the world. The words

σωζειν and σώζεθαι are ufed in the New Tefament and in the Septuagint, not only for deliverance out of evil, but for prefervation from it by continual protection. See Pfal. xxxvi. 7. Gen.

xix. 19, 22. 1 Sam. xix. 12. Matth. xxiv. 22. John xi. 12. Acts xxvii. 20, 21. Matth. viii. 25. And this perhaps is the fense of the word, 1 Tim. iv. 14. where God is termed the Savi

i. e. Preferver of all men, especially of them that believe. The name Σwrn, was often given by the Greeks to Princes, to fignify that they had been bleffings and benefactors to their fubjects. And the LXX. use it instead of the word V, which imports not only the removal of evil, but the restoring of happiness, so that it fhall not be loft any more. See Deut. xxxiii. 29. Ifa. xlv. 17. The name Jofhuah was given by divine direction, not to the deliverer of Ifrael out of Egypt, but to him who put them in possesfion of the land of Canaan. Saving, Luke xviii. 42. means recovering fight. And, Acts iv. 9. σçowçal is rendered in our English verfion made whole. It is natural therefore to understand salvation in the largeft fenfe, in paffages which prophecy of the Meffias as a Saviour, e. g. Gen. xlix. 18. Ifa. xii. 2. lii. 9, 10. Jer. xxiii. 5, 6. And, in fact, the falvation purchased and applied by Chrift includes, (1.) Deliverance from the guilt and punishment of fin, and restoration to the favour of God. See Theff. i. 10. Ephef. i. 7. The Greeks termed a sentence of absolution (800, and faving is opposed to condemning, John iii. 17. Mark xvi. 16. (2.) Deliverance even in this life from the power and dominion of fin, and a begun conformity to God's image, Matth. i. 21. Tit. ii. 14. (3) A deliverance at last from all the remains of fin and forrow, and the poffeffion of fulness of joy and pleafures for evermore, 1 John v. 10, 11. Hence faith is defcribed, Heb. xi. as a lively realizing perfuafion of the glories of an unfeen world, leading men from defire of

that

that better country and refpect to the recompence of reward, to renounce the pleasures of fin, and to fuffer affliction with the people of God. And they who have the fpirit of faith are reprefented, 2 Cor. iv. 13, 18. as looking at the things which are unfeen and eternal. It must not be forgot, that the gospel-teftimony exhibits Chrift as fent by the Father, and faith refpects him as the Father's ordinance for man's falvation. See John v. 24. vi. 29. xii. 44. xvi. 27. xvii. 8. Rom. iii. 23 -25. His refurrection from the dead, was not only an atteftation of his divine miffion, but a declaration that he had done and fuffered all that was neceffary for man's falvation. And, therefore, faving faith is defcribed, Rom. x. 9. as a believing in the heart, that God raised the Lord Jefus from the dead. And Peter addreffes the Chriftians to whom he wrote, I ep. i. 21. as by Christ believing in God that raifed him up from the dead and gave him glory, that their faith and hope might be in God.

9. Saving faith is reprefented as a believing on Christ's name, John i. 12. iii. 18. Acts x. 43. 1 John v. 13. What is termed, Matth. xii. 21. trufting in Chrift's name is termed, Ifa. xlii. 4. waiting for his law. By both expreffions we are to understand, the law that was to go forth out of Zion, Ifa. ii. 3. even the law of faith, Rom. iii. 27. or, in plainer words, the doctrine of the gospel, by which Chrift manifefts himself to men. This is Chrift's name, which Paul was to bear before the Gentiles, and for the fake of which he was to fuffer great things, 16. And we are told, Acts viii. 12. maritans believed Philip, preaching concerning the name of Jefus Chrift.

Acts ix. 15, that the Sathe things The name

of

of Chrift chiefly denotes, (1.) The doctrine of juftification through his name or merits, 1 John ii. 12. "I write unto you, little children, be"caufe your fins are forgiven you for his name's "fake." Jer. xxiii. 6. "This is the name,

whereby he fhall be called, Jehovah our righ"teoufnefs." i. e. He shall be acknowledged as the felf-exiftent God, and as having wrought. out that righteoufnefs, through which alone any of mankind are juftified. The confefling these truths is made a neceffary mark of the true church. Jer. xxxiii. 16. "This is the name wherewith

the fhall be called, Jehovah our righteouf"nefs." From a conviction of this we are to pray in Chrift's name, John xiv. 13. xv. 16. xvi. 23. i. e. to plead upon his obedience and fufferings for every needful bleffing. Agreeably to the prophecy, Joel ii. 32. "Whofoever fhall call "on the name of the LORD fhall be delivered;" where calling on the name of the LORD means the fame thing as making mention of his righteoufnefs, even of his only, Pfal. lxxi. 16. (2.) The name of Chrift may intend alfo, the doctrine of the glory to which he is advanced as Mediator, in order to apply the purchafed redemption. God the Father has given him a name above every name, Phil. ii. 10. In con fequence of his obedience and fufferings, as a minifter of the true fanctuary, he intercedes for us, as a Prophet teaches, and as a King rules us. Through this name we are faved, Acts iv. 12. i. e. by the power with which the Mediator is vefted, the disorders are rectified, and the dif eafes cured, which fin had introduced into our natures. Through this name believers fhall have life, John xx. 31. and in this name men shall

be