2. There is a promise of heavenly influences made to Christ, Isa. 50.4.1 He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5. The Lord hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious. Some great Divines say, Christ had no sleepy nor closed ear: he must there speak of Isaiah. But so there was no sinful dryness in Christ; Was He not therefore anointed? Isa. 42.1. I will put my Spirit upon him. Then all influences are promised also, Isa. 11.2. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: — 3. And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, &c. 2. Christ was assured he could not sin,2 and so of influences to duties, Joh. 5.30. Joh. 8.26, 27, 38, 50, 55. Joh. 10.38. though he wanted influences at a time, as touching consolation and the felt fruition of God, being forsaken for a time, Psal. 22.1. Luk. 22.44. Math▪ 27.45. But Adam, 3as he was not to believe perseverance, nor yet sinfully to fear falling: so neither was he to believe influences to all acts of obedience, they not being promised to him. Yet was not Adam to believe his own reprobation; for it was neither true nor a revealed truth. Then the only nearest way against deadness and dryness, is to have recourse to the fountain and fullness of life that is in Christ. Literal quickening of our selves, miskenning Christ, out of whose fullness we receive, produceth but literal fardinesse. 3. The special and cardinal promise (I will be his God, 4Psal. 89.26. and he shall cry to me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.) is bound up with Christ in the Covenant of Suretyship, and is the key and corner stone of the frame and building of the Covenant of Grace, Joh. 20.17. Go to my Brethren, (saith Christ to Magdalen) and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and to your Father, and to my God and ⟨p. 351⟩your God. Its comfortable talking that Christ saith to us, I and you Believers are the Children of the same Father, and have one Covenant-relation to one God: though, as is said, Christ bear the relation of a Surety-Covenant to God, and we of a Covenant of Mediation;
2. There is a promise of heavenly influences made to Christ, Isa. 50.4.1 He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5. The Lord hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious. Some great Divines say, Christ had no sleepy nor closed ear: he must there speak of Isaiah. But so there was no sinfull drynesse in Christ; Was He not therefore anointed? Isa. 42.1. I will put my Spirit upon him. Then all influences are promised also, Isa. 11.2. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: — 3. And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, and he shal not judge after the sight of his eyes, &c. 2. Christ was assured he could not sin,2 and so of influences to duties, Joh. 5.30. Joh. 8.26, 27, 38, 50, 55. Joh. 10.38. though he wanted influences at a time, as touching consolation and the felt fruition of God, being forsaken for a time, Psal. 22.1. Luk. 22.44. Math▪ 27.45. But Adam, 3as he was not to beleeve perseverance, nor yet sinfully to fear falling: so neither was he to beleeve influences to all acts of obedience, they not being promised to him. Yet was not Adam to beleeve his own reprobation; for it was neither true nor a revealed truth. Then the only nearest way against deadnesse and drynesse, is to have recourse to the fountain and fulnesse of life that is in Christ. Literall quickning of our selves, miskenning Christ, out of whose fulnesse we receive, produceth but literall fardinesse. 3. The speciall and cardinall promise (I will be his God, 4Psal. 89.26. and he shall cry to me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.) is bound up with Christ in the Covenant of Suretyship, and is the key and corner stone of the frame and building of the Covenant of Grace,
- 1A promise of heavenly influences is made to Christ.
- 2Christ was assured of influences.
- 3Adam was not to believe he should have influences, nor yet to believe his own reprobation.Adam was not to beleeve he should have influences, nor yet to beleeve his own reprobation.
- 4The great promise, I will be his God, made to Christ.
