An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

2. We have the effect or end of such consolations, which are vouchsafed to others, especially the Officers of the Church, who are like the mountains whose springs empty themselves into the valleys, and that is two-sold, Consolation and Salvation. Of the former enough hath been said already.

We come therefore to the latter, which is their Salvation, [Greek or Hebrew]. We have three words in the New Testament, tending to the same, [Greek or Hebrew], a Saviour, thus Christ is often called; and his Name Jesus is, because he doth save his people; Christ is the cause of our salvation. Then there is [Greek or Hebrew], Actual salvation, Act. 4. 12. Yea this is applied sometimes to Christ himself metonymically. Even as in the Old Testament David doth often call God his salvation. Act. 13. 47. Christ is there said to be [Greek or Hebrew], For salvation to the ends of the earth. Luk. 1. 69. he is called the horn of salvation, that is, a powerful and strong Saviour. Lastly, There is [Greek or Hebrew], which doth not so much signify salvation it self, as the means and instrument by which it is procured; and thus Christ as Mediator is our [Greek or Hebrew], Luke 2. 30. Luk. 3. 6. Hence Ephes. 6. 17. The helmet of salvation, because it's [Greek or Hebrew], it may relate even to Christ himself; as David calleth God, his helmet, and his shield, &c.

We come therefore to the latter, which is their Salvation, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. We have three words in the New Testament, tending to the same, , a Saviour, thus Christ is often called; and his Name Jesus is, because he doth save his people; Christ is the cause of our salvation. Then there is , Actual salvation,