fo 1 Cor. vi. 16. are Fornicators; fo between Christ and the Spouse, Eph. v. 33. This is a great Myftery, but 1 fpeak concerning Chrift and the Church. v. 30. For we are Members of his Body, of his Flefh, and of his Bones. So Children in either Sense are said to be, Heb. xii. 9. We have had Fathers of our Flefb. ii. 13. (cited from Ifa. viii. 18.) I and the Children which God hath given me. 14. Foraf

much then as the Children are Partakers of Flesh and Blood; he also himself took Part of the fame.So ii. 11. He is not afbamed to call them Brethren. So whatfoever was loft in the Flefh, was to be recovered for Believers in the Flefh. Hence Jehovah was to come to his Station to perform his Office, in by Flefh. So Job was to fee Jehovah, the execrated. Pfal. Ixxx. 17. Let thy Hand be upon the Perfon of thy Right-hand, upon the Son of Man whom thou madeft Strong for thyself. Zach. xiii. 7. Awake, O Sword, against my Shepherd, and againft, that is my Fellow, faith Jehovah of Hofts, fmite the Shepherd, &c. Mal. iv. 5. Behold, I will fend you

-Pfal. lxxxix. 19. Then thou Spakeft. in Vifion to the Holy One, and faidft I have laid Help upon &c. and v. 49.

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What fhall live, and not fee Deaths fhall deliver his Body from the Hand of Diffolution, Selah. Ifa. xxvi. 19. His dead Men fhall live, together with my dead Body shall they arise. Pfal. xvi. 10. For thou wilt not leave my Body in the Grave, neither wilt thou fuffer my, thy, pious One to fee Corruption. (Diffolution, Reduction to Duft, which was the Sentence upon Man) cited Acts ii. 27, 31. xiii. 35, 37. But he whom God raifed again faw no Diffolution. Pfal. ciii. 4. Redeeming from Diffolution thy, my Liver. So Ifa. xxxviii. 17. But thou haft embraced my Body from the Diffolution of Time, So us, Rom. viii. 21. Because the Creature itself, alfo fhall be delivered from the Bondage of Diffolu tion, into the glorious Liberty of the Chil dren of God. 1 Cor. xv. 42.It is fown in Corruption, it is raised in Incorruption. 53. For this Corruption must put on Incorruption. Then (cited from Ifa. xxv. 8.) Death is fwallowed up in Victory-1 Pet. i. 23. Being born again, not of corruptible Seed, but of incorruptible, by the fecret Perfon (now revealed,) of God which liveth and abideth for ever. Gen. iii. 15.her Seed, it fball bruife thy Head, and thou shalt

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bruife his Heel. xvii. 2. And I will give
my Purifier between me and between thee..
Heb. ii. 14.- Flesh and Blood, he alfo
himself took Part of the fame, that thro'
Death he might destroy him that had the
Power of Death, that is the Devil, and
deliver them, &c. 16. But he took on
him the Seed of Abraham. Acts ii. 3.-
of the Fruit of his (David's) Loins ac-
cording to the Flesh he would raise up
Chrift. Rom. i. 3. Which was made of
the Seed of David according to the Flef.
John i. 1. And the Word was God. 14.
And the Word was made Flesh. Phil. ii.
6, 7. Who being in the Form of God,
thought it not Robbery to be equal with
God-was made in the Likeness of Men.
1 Tim. iii. 16. God was manifeft in the
Flefb-received up into Glory. Rom. ix.
5.-of whom concerning the Flesh, Chrift
who is over all, God blessed for ever, A-
men. viii. 3. God fending his own Son
in the Likeness of finful Flesh, and for
Sin condemned Sin in the Flesh. Ephef.
ii. 15. Having abolished in his Flesh the
Enmity, &c. Col. i. 21, 22. Yet now
hath he reconciled in the Body of his
Flesh through Death.
in the Days of his Flesh.
the Vail, that is to fay,

Heb. v. 7. Who x. 20-Through his Flefh. 1Pet.

iii. 18. For Chrift alfo hath once fuffered for Sins, the Just for the Unjuft (that he might bring us to God) being put to Death in the Flesh, but quickened in the Spirit. iv. 1. Forafmuch then as Chrift hath fuffered in the Flesh-Rom. v. 14. Death reigned from Adam-.

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who is the Figure of him that was to come. 17. By one Man's Offence Death reigned. -18. Even fo by the Righte oufness of one.--1 Cor. xv. 22. For as in Adam all die, even fo in Christ shall all be made alive. 45. The first Man Adam was made a living Soul, the last Adam a quickening Spirit. Heb. ii. 9. For we fee Jefus- -for the fuffering of Death crowned with Glory and Honour, That he by the Grace of God, should tafte Death for every Man. See the Citations in the Hebrew Writings perfect, p. 97, 98.) But to return to the Text, Job xix. 26. I fhall have a Vifion of

the Perfon execrated, whom I fhall have a Vifion of to my felf.(Nold. p. 482, &c. "Perfonal Pronouns are expreflive "of Poffeffion of a thing, or Office;"", as Pfal. cxviii. 6, 7, &c.) And my Eye faw him (my next Relation the Avenger of my Blood, he who was execrated for me) and not a Stranger. They have compleated

my

my Defires in my Bofom; because they fay, why is there Perfecution to him, and the Root of the Secret is found in me. xxii. 12. Is not the Perfon execrated in the Height of the Names, and behold the Heads of the Stars, how high they are, and thou haft faid, What does the Irradiator know? Can he judge through the Darkness? Thick Denfities are a Covering to him that he fees not; for he walketh upon the Circumference of the Names. xxvii. 10. He shall call on at all Times. xxix. 3. When ba in the Council of x, xxxi. 6. Let him weigh me in the Scales of Righteoufness, and let know my Perfection. xxxiii. In this thou art not right s I will answer thee, that is greater than Man. v. 23. If there be an Agent with him, hp an Interpreter * (of the Terms between Man and ) one of a Thoufand he shall pray untos, and he will have Mercy on him, and he shall See

*Or rather, as we fhould take it, an Officer who takes a Meffage from an Inferior, and puts it in his own Words, and carries it to a King or Prince, whom in his own Perfon a mean Man had no Accefs to. It has no Relation to tranflating one Language into another, but only putting another Man's Senfe into your own Words, as commenting is defigned to do; and fo the Word is ufed in S. S. and this is a clear Idea; and fuch an Officer belonged to all great Men formerly, and is in all Courts at prefent. This is the Office Chrift performs for Man to God.