Christ Set Forth

never any Son so like, and in so peculiarly a transcendent manner a Son, as the ⟨p. 156⟩relation of Son-ship among men is but a shadow of it! Christ is one with his Father, as himself often speaks; and therefore if his Father should deny him any thing, he should then cease to be one with him, he must then deny himself, which God can never do. He is in this respect [the Beloved] as he is called, Ephes. 1. 6. as on whom (originally and primarily) all the beams of Gods love do fall. Solomon (the type of Christ) was the beloved of God, 2 Sam. 12. 24. and had his name from thence, (namely) Jedidiah, that is, beloved of the Lord: And to show how beloved he was, God, when he came first to his kingdom, bade him ask what he should give him, 1 King. 3. 5. Now the like God says to Christ when come first to his Kingdom also, Psal. 2. 8. Ask of me and I will give thee; namely, when he had set him as King on his holy hill, ver. 6. And of him he says, This is my well-beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear him. God bids us therefore and upon that respect to hear him; and that speech was but the echo of his own heart, in that he himself is so well pleased with him for this that he is his Son, as he himself will hear him in every thing, yea, and is so pleased with him, as that although Christ had never died, nor obeyed the Law; yet simply, because he is his Son, he hath so full an acquiescence of all desires in him, and complacency of delights, that he could deny him nothing. How prevalent then must Christs intercession needs be, though there were nothing else to be considered?

never any Sonne so like, and in so peculiarly a transcendent manner a Sonne, as the ⟨p. 156⟩relation of Sonne-ship among men is but a shadow of it! Christ is one with his Father, as himselfe often speakes; and therefore if his Father should deny him any thing, he should then cease to be one with him, he must then deny himselfe, which God can never do. He is in this respect [the Beloved] as he is called,