Regeneration, and the Renovation of our natures is also included in it, as a part of this blessing, Acts 3.25, 26. Ye are children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, in thy seed, shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Therefore unto you first God, having raised up his son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. There is also Redemption from the curse of the Law, and the gift of Eternal Life, included in it: Now all these are works ⟨p. 173⟩proper to God alone. Let us come to the Promise made to David, 2 Sam. 7.12, 13. I will set up thy seed after thee, and I will establish the throne of thy kingdom for ever. 'Tis spoken in the Type of Solomon, but in the Mystery of Christ, who is true Man as Davids seed; and true God, for his Kingdom is everlasting: And so David interpreteth it, Psal. 45.6. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever. The Kingdom of the Messiah is never to have an end. And the Apostle affirmeth expressly, that those words are spoken to Christ the son of God, Heb. 1.7. Let me next allege Jobs confession of Faith, which was very Ancient, Job 19.25, 26. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God. His Redeemer was true Man as appeareth by his Title Goel; and because he shall stand on the Earth, and be seen by his bodily eyes. True God, for he calleth him so, I shall see God. Go we on in the Scriptures, Isa. 4.2. Christ is prophesied of; In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful, and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely. When he is called the Branch of the Lord, his Godhead is signified; when he is called the fruit of the ⟨p. 174⟩earth, his Manhood. So again, Is•. 7.14. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Immanuel. That is to say, God with us; which can agree to none but to hi• that is God and Man. So that this Mystery of God Incarnate, was not hid from the Church of the Old Testament, for his very Name did import God with us, or God in our Nature reconciling us to himself. So Isa. 9.6.
Regeneration, and the Renovation of our natures is also included in it, as a part of this blessing, Acts 3.25, 26. Ye are children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, in thy seed, shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Therefore unto you first God, having raised up his son Iesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. There is also Redemption from the curse of the Law, and the gift of Eternal Life, included in it: Now all these are works ⟨p. 173⟩proper to God alone. Let us come to the Promise made to David, 2 Sam. 7.12, 13. I will set up thy seed after thee, and I will establish the throne of thy kingdom for ever. 'Tis spoken in the Type of Solomon, but in the Mystery of Christ, who is true Man as Davids seed; and true God, for his Kingdom is everlasting: And so David interpreteth it, Psal. 45.6. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever. The Kingdom of the Messiah is never to have an end. And the Apostle affirmeth expresly, that those words are spoken to Christ the son of God, Heb. 1.7. Let me next alledge Iobs confession of Faith, which was very Ancient, Iob 19.25, 26. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God. His Redeemer was true Man as appeareth by his Title Goel; and because he shall stand on the Earth, and be seen by his bodily eyes. True God, for he calleth him so, I shall see God. Go we on in the Scriptures, Isa. 4.2. Christ is prophesied of; In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful, and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely. When he is called the Branch of the Lord, his Godhead is signified; when he is called the fruit of the ⟨p. 174⟩earth, his Manhood. So again, Is•. 7.14. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Imm••uel. That is to say, God with us; which can agree to none but to hi• that is God and Man. So that this Mystery of God Incarnate, was not hid from the Church of the Old Testament, for his very Name did import God with us, or God in our Nature reconciling us to himself. So
