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ib.

Unequal .

The spirit of bondage compelleth many to unwilling services.

The power of the word in natural men worketh a velleity, or incom-

Such as the will is, such is the service

Because the will is the first mover

Because God esteemeth himself most honoured thereby

Whether those who are truly Christ's people, may not have their

fears and unwillingness in his service.

1. They may have a fear of Suffering God's wrath.

Meddling with his service.

2. They may have deadness, weariness, and a mixture of unwil-

lingness in his service.

Beauty and preciousness of heavenly promises

. 292

Experiences of peace, comfort, and security in God's ways 293
Beauty of holiness.

3. Yet still their wills are sincerely carried towards God.

Christ's people are made willing to obey him, by an act of power

The ground hereof is the universal fleshliness, and reluctancy of

the will naturally against grace.

The more earnest should we be to serve Christ, when we are his

Holiness a glorious and beautiful thing

From the Strength of corruptions

Weakness of graces

Importunity of temptations

Weight of some fresh sin

Spiritual desertions

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Therefore the seed must be received with heavenly affections

Therefore we must look unto God in his ordinances

The birth of a Christian a secret and undiscerned work

The birth of a Christian is a sudden birth

How the Lord sweareth

Why the Lord confirmed the priesthood of Christ by an oath

Christ's solemn ordination unto the office of a priest

Which is the foundation of all the Church's comfort,

In regard of Christ's Fidelity.

How God is said to repent

Whether God hath repented him of the law

Why the covenant of grace is immutable

What a Priest is

All Christ's people are Priests unto God

Holiness the character of Christ's subjects

. 322

None willing to come to Christ, till they see beauty in his service. 325

Multitudes born unto Christ by the Gospel

. 327

Whether universality and visible pomp be a note of the church

All Christ's subjects are withal his children

• 330

.334

. 337

And should express the affection of children

The birth of a Christian is a heavenly work

. 338

Grounds tending to discover the necessity of a Priest for man

A discovery of that necessity

With the application thereof

Qualifications of the person which was to be our priest.

He was to be a Mediator

a Surety

a Sacrifice

an Altar

All in the unity of one person.

Wherein the acts of Christ's Priesthood consisted,

Namely, Oblation

Intercession

Christ's will made his death a sacrifice

Christ's Intercession appearing in heaven for us

Christ's death did merit, and his life confer, redemption

Wherein Christ's Intercession consisteth.

No mediators of Intercession

. 383

. 384

. 386

The great benefits which come to us by Christ's Intercession 387

What is the fruit and virtue of Christ's priesthood,
Namely, Satisfaction for our debt

Acquisition of our inheritance

An explication of the doctrine of justification by righteousness im-

puted'

393

How Christ, being innocent, might justly suffer the punishment of

our sins.

3. A strength to break through the sufferings
How sin, thus punished, may be said to be pardoned.
A double use of the doctrine of righteousness
Imputed Self-denial

. 372

. 373

. ib.

•

. 374

1. God may cast pains upon an innocent person

. 397

2. It is not against general equity, for one to suffer another's sin. ib.
3. This equity in the present case is, that all parties are both
willing and glorified

4. In the innocent person, thus suffering as a sacrifice for the

innocent, is required

. 378

. 381

Duties, growing out of the consideration of Christ's priesthood

Of Melchizedek, his Person

1. An intimate conjunction with him that is innocent

2. A full dominion over that, from which in suffering he

parteth

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391
ib.

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ib.

400

ib.

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Christ is a king of Righteousness
Christ is a king of Canaanites .

Where Christ is a king of Righteousness, he is a king of Peace.
Christ's forwardness to meet and to bless his people .

Christ a comforter and refresher of his people

Christ a receiver of homage and tribute

Liberal maintenance due unto the ministers of the gospel
Christ's Priesthood is everlasting

Satan's enmity in Tempting

Accusing

1. When sin is grown to its fulness; which is known by its

Why the Lord is said to be at the right hand of his Church'.

Christ's enemies kings

All praise and honour to be given unto God for the power and office

of Christ

Christ is present and prepared to defend his people from their

enemies.

Christ, in his appointed time, will utterly overthrow his greatest

enemies

2. When the Church is thoroughly humbled and purged.
3. When all human hopes and expectations are gone

Christ's victories are by way of pleading and disceptation

A torrent of curses between man and salvation.

. 417

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The necessity of Christ's sufferings

The greatness and nature of Christ's sufferings

The power and virtue of Christ's resurrection

How the Spirit of judgement overcometh corruptions

How Christ overcometh his potent adversaries in the world

There is a constituted time, wherein Christ will be avenged of his

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416

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437

441

442

. 450

ib.

AN

EXPLICATION

VOL. II.

OF THE

HUNDRED AND TENTH PSALM,

WHEREIN

THE SEVERAL HEADS OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION THEREIN CONTAINED,
TOUCHING THE EXALTATION OF CHRIST, THE SCEPTRE OF HIS
KINGDOM, THE CHARACTER OF HIS SUBJECTS, HIS PRIEST-
HOOD, VICTORIES, SUFFERINGS, AND RESURRECTION,
ARE LARGELY EXPLAINED AND APPLIED.

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