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…

First, That Christ is not a Saviour in any temporal or worldly sense. It's ¹true, God is said to be the Saviour o• the whole world, because of his preservation, which extends to all; but Christ is a Saviour, because he saveth his people from their sins; Mat. 1. It was a corrupt opinion among the Jews, yea the Disciples were leavened with it, That Christ should come, and be a temporal Saviour, as Joshua and Moses I were ••but this salvation is wholly spiritual; it's from our sins, from the Devils; and condemnation, which as it is the greatest salvation, and none could be a Saviour, in this sense, but Christ: So it ought to be of the greatest esteem with us. Therefore the Gospel is called [Greek or Hebrew], it being the most happy and blessed news that can be, for broken and undone sinners to hear of a Saviour. Do not then come to this Saviour for loaves, for outward advantages, but if sick for sin, and burdened under the load of it, come to this Saviour for ease.

First, That Christ is not a Saviour in any temporal or worldly sense. It's ¹true, God is said to be the Saviour o• the whole world, because of his preservation, which extends to all; but Christ is a Saviour, because he saveth his people from their sinnes; Mat. 1. It was a corrupt opinion among the Jews, yea the Disciples were leavened with it, That Christ should come, and be a temporal Saviour, as Joshua and Moses I were ••but this salvation is wholly spiritual; it's from our sinnes, from the Devils; and condemnation, which as it is the greatest salvation, and none could be a Saviour, in this sense, but Christ: So it ought to be of the greatest esteem with us. Therefore the Gospel is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, it being the most happy and blessed news that can be, for broken and undone sinners to hear of a Saviour. Do not then come to this Saviour for loaves, for outward advantages, but if sick for sinne, and burdened under the load of it, come to this Saviour for ease.