Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

1. Consider what a fit object he is for your Faith to close with. 2. Own him as your Lord and your God.

1. To raise your trust and confidence, consider what a fit object he is for your Faith, how he is qualified for all his offices, of Prophet, Priest and King:

1. As your Prophet: consider how necessary it was that God dwelling in mans nature should set a foot the Gospel: Partly because when ever you come seriously to consider this matter; this thought will arise in you, that this blessed Gospel could not be without repealing the Law of Moses, given with such solemnity by God himself: and it was not fit it should be abrogated by any but him who was far above Moses, to wit, by the Son of God himself, not any fellow servant equal to Moses. The Apostle telleth us that Moses was Faithful in Gods House as a servant, but Christ as a Son over his own House, Heb. 13.5, 6. The servant must give place when the Son, and Lord himself cometh, but rather take it from what Moses foretold himself, Deut. 18.18, 19. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee, and I will put my words into his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I command him, and it shall come to pass, that he that will not hearken to my word which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of •im. Now these words cannot be verified in any other Prophet after Moses until Christ, for that of these Prophets there arose none in Israel like unto Moses, Deut. 34.10. They had no authority to be Lawgivers as Moses had, but