Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

3. Yet the Ground is laid as soon as we have an Interest in Christ, God is well pleased with us; if you consent to his Mediation, and take him in his three Offices, as a Prophet, Priest, and King. As a Prophet, hear him; the business is put out of all Question, that God will love you because he loved Christ. When you depend on him as a Priest, you have Reconciliation and Access to God; Rom. 5. 1, 2. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into the grace ⟨p. 146⟩wherein we stand. When you subject your selves to him as a King, Col. 1. 13. He hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Christ is dear to God, and to him all the Subjects of his Kingdom are dear also. So that if you will be more explicit in your Duty, you may be more explicit in your Comforts; if you will receive his Doctrine, so as it may have Authority over your Hearts; if in the Anguish of your Souls, you will depend on the Merit of his Sacrifice, and give up your selves to live in a constant Obedience to his Laws. You will find him to be a dear Son indeed, one very acceptable with God, for you also will be accepted with him, for his sake.

3. Yet the Ground is laid assoon as we have an Interest in Christ, God is well pleased with us; if you consent to his Mediation, and take him in his three Offices, as a Prophet, Priest, and King. As a Prophet, hear him; the business is put out of all Question, that God will love you because he loved Christ. When you depend on him as a Priest, you have Reconciliation and Access to God; Rom. 5. 1, 2. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Iesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into the grace ⟨p. 146⟩wherein we stand. When you subject your selves to him as a King, Col. 1. 13. He hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Christ is dear to God, and to him all the Subjects of his Kingdom are dear also. So that if you will be more explicite in your Duty, you may be more explicite in your Comforts; if you will receive his Doctrine, so as it may have Authority over your Hearts; if in the Anguish of your Souls, you will depend on the Merit of his Sacrifice, and give up your selves to live in a constant Obedience to his Laws. You will find him to be a dear Son indeed, one very acceptable with God, for you also will be accepted with him, for his sake.