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…

Fifthly, He is a Saviour in an efficacious applicatory manner. Those that ⟨p. 26⟩he intentionally died for, he will save. This good Shepherd will find out his lost sheep, and not expect till the lost sheep come and find him, which will never be. They are his sheep he layeth down his life for. It's his people he saveth from their sins. So that those of whom Christ is a Saviour, he will in time cause by effectual grace, that they shall come home to him, and be made partakers of the glorious benefits that flow from his death.

Fifthly, He is a Saviour in an efficacious applicatory manner. Those that ⟨p. 26⟩he intentionally died for, he will save. This good Shepherd will find out his lost sheep, and not expect till the lost sheep come and find him, which will never be. They are his sheep he layeth down his life for. It's his people he saveth from their sinnes. So that those of whom Christ is a Saviour, he will in time cause by effectual grace, that they shall come home to him, and be made partakers of the glorious benefits that flow from his death.

Thus you see in what sense he is a Saviour, take notice of the properties of it.

1. It's a spiritual salvation; and therefore carnal and natural men, who feel ¹not themselves spiritually undone, they will never run after him. The godly soul that complaineth of the guilt of sin, of the power of sin, of the remainders of corruption, he it is, that crieth out, Oh let this Saviour come and save me! And he can the more affectionately do it, because he himself was saved and delivered by God, from the cries and agonies he conflicted with. The Apostle aggravateth this for our comfort,