The application of redemption

True flesh and blood cannot bear it, therefore flesh ¹and blood cannot please God, therefore flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; flesh and blood cannot save you, therefore should not rule you, if you will hear the Rule of Christ, it's plain, 1 Pet. 3. 9. We must not render evil for evil, railing for railing, and if any man desire to see good days, and to seek peace; this is the way which God appoints and blesseth: If you will see the practice of our Saviour Christ, it's also plain and precedential, He gave his cheeks to the Buffeters, and […] back to the Snuters, and as a Lamb was dumb before the Shearer in all his sufferings; and he was more innocent than you, suffered more wrong, had more reason and Authority also, if it had been a Rule so to have righted himself: But he would not do so, 1 Pet. 2. 29. When he was reviled, he reviled not again; nay, the Text says, he durst not do so, and that when he dealt with the Devil, the Accuser of the Brethren, for so many Interpreters understand the place, and I cannot see but it's safe and suitable; safe for the sense, and suitable to the Context. Jude, 8. 9. reproving that sin of reviling, verse 8. he confutes and condemns it thus, Yet Michael the Arch-Angel, when contending with the ⟨p. 133⟩Devil, he […] about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation. This Michael who appeared now as the Messenger of the Covenant, and in the form of a Servant, and therefore contested with Satan, as in the days of his flesh when tempted. If Christ durst not, how dares any man? If not to the Devil, how any to such as are in Dignity?

True flesh and blood cannot bear it, therefore flesh ¹and blood cannot please God, therefore flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; flesh and blood cannot save you, therefore should not rule you, if you wil hear the Rule of Christ, it's plain, 1 Pet. 3. 9. We must not render evil for evil, railing for railing, and if any man desire to see good daies, and to seek peace; this is the way which God appoints and blesseth: If you wil see the practice of our Savior Christ, it's also plain and precedential, He gave his cheeks to the Buffeters, and back to the Snuters, and as a Lamb was dumb before the Shearer in all his sufferings; and he was more innocent than you, suffered more wrong, had more reason and Authority also, if it had been a Rule so to have righted himself: But he would not do so, 1 Pet. 2. 29. When he was reviled, he reviled not again; nay, the Text saies, he durst not do so, and that when he dealt with the Devil, the Accuser of the Brethren, for so many Interpreters understand the place, and I cannot see but it's safe and suitable; safe for the sence, and suitable to the Context.