laid down his life for the fheep. And here is the love of Chrift manifefted to the uttermoft in bearing the fins, iniquities, and tranfgreffions of his people, and his Father's curfe and wrath, to deliver them from endless woe. Chrift alfo hath loved us, and given himfelf for us, an offering and a facrifice to God for a fweet Smelling favour. There was in and by the fufferings, atonement, and death of Chrift, a perfect and an everlasting fatisfaction given to all the demands of infinite juftice; and the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift beheld the travail of his foul and was fatisfied. Divine juftice was not more incenfed against fin, than divine holiness was pleased with the offering of Chrift for fin. The facrifice of Chrift fully reftores the honour due unto God's law, and it has in it an eternal value, endless worth, and an everlasting efficacy. Again, as God the Father was well pleased with the fufferings, blood-fhedding, and death of his Son, fo he declared it by raising him from the dead, when he said unto him, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And Christ appeared to be God's beloved Son in whom he is well pleased, in his being exalted by the power of God to his right hand, and feated by him upon his mediatorial throne, as the Lamb newly flain. So everlaftingly well pleafed is the Father with Chrift, and with his death, that he will have the remembrance of it kept up in the churches of his faints below, in the celebration of the Lord's Supper, and he will have the Lamb that was flain appear in the midft of the throne, that he may continually view him with everlafting delight, as the

Lamb who hath taken away fin, and abolished it for ever. John tells us, Rev. v. 6, And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, (or, living creatures) and in the midst of the elders, flood a Lamb, as it had been flain. He will, throughout eternity, be viewed in heaven by all his redeemed, as the Lamb that was flain, and they will behold in his glorified humanity, the wounds which he received when he became their facrifice, which will ferve to unite their hearts in everlasting love to him. And here I would obferve, that as God is well pleafed with the ever bleffed Mediator, fo he is likewise, in him and with him, well pleased with all the elect; and this will appear when we confider that they were united, by the bond of everlasting love, to Chrift, and set by him as a feal upon his heart before all worlds. He represented them in the everlasting covenant, and undertook their caufe, and became their furety. For their fakes he was manifefted in the flesh, in their law-place he ftood and acted. Their fins he bore, their curfe he fuftained, he died for them, confidering them as one with him; the members of Christ are always confidered by the Father in relation to Jefus, in whom God beholds them everlaftingly righteous as they fhine in his fight, and are viewed by him, as wrapped up in, and clothed with the robe of Chrift's righteoufnefs, that garment of falvation, in which they are eternally justified, and in which they will be eternally glorified. Chrift bath loved us, faith John, fpeaking of believers, and washed us from our fins in his own blood. And, as

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God beholds his people in the atonement of his Son, they are all fair, immaculately pure; and as fuch he is everlastingly well pleafed with them in his beloved Son. God takes no view of his people, but in Jesus ; he fees them, represented by Christ, their head, high priest, and furety, complete in him. He communicates all his love, grace, and mercy unto them through Chrift the Mediator; and these are actually conveyed into their hearts, through the agency of the bleffed Spirit. I close the whole with this obfervation, that this is the life of faith, the being employed in contemplating the mystery of reconciliation; and happy, inexpreffibly happy it is, to be viewing the eternal engagements between God and Christ on our behalf to be viewing Christ in his person and mediatorial office and character, obferving how completely he hath finished the work of falvation, and obtained eternal redemption for us: to attend to the revelation which the Father hath made of him in the word, and the character he gives of him, and the teftimony which he bears concerning him, and of his being well pleafed with him, and with all his. Faith receives God's teftimony concerning Chrift, and by this means the belief of God's love is brought into the heart, and his peace into the conscience, and there it is actually enjoyed by help of the Holy Spirit. May God the Holy Ghoft glorify Jefus in our hearts. Amen.

SERMON III.

MOSES'S REQUEST.

EXODUS, Chap. xxxiii. Ver. 18.

And be faid, I befeech thee, fhew me thy glory.

So prayed Mofes the man of God, that peculiar

favourite of JEHOVAH, who had been admitted into the pavilion and presence-chamber of the MOST HIGH, and had enjoyed extraordinary fellowship and communion with him, with whom the Lord converfed freely and fully, as a man doth with his friend. Mofes was, in many particulars, a very extraordinary type of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, in his prophetic, priestly, and kingly offices: for all these he exercifed upon occafions. That he was a prophet, and as fuch a type of Chrift, is fully clear, from his own words: A prophet will the Lord your God raise, up unto you of your brethren like unto me; him shall ye hear. And that this respected the Lord Jefus, is clear from Peter's application of it to Chrift, A&ts iii. 22, 23. He was likewise a prieft (though but for a fhort fpace) and acted as fuch at the confecration of Aaron

and his fons; for it was Mofes who anointed them, and inftalled them into their offices. He is alfo ftyled, King in Fefburun,-when the heads of the people and the tribes of Ifrael were gathered together; fo that in this he exceeds all others who are types of Christ, seeing that in him, as in a fhadow, the threefold office of Chrift was reprefented; as meeting and centering in one perfon. In his being admitted into God's prefence, and in his having the Lord's mind and will made known unto him, we fee a parallel between him and Chrift, who is exprefsly ftyled, the angel of JEHOVAH's prefence, who knows God's whole mind and will, and reveals and makes it known to his church and people. No man hath feen God (or known God, for fo the words may be rendered, fays Dr. Goodwin) at any time, the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. John i. 18. And Mofes in his mediation on the behalf of the children of Ifrael, fhewed forth the powerful and all-prevalent interceffion of our Lord on the behalf of his beloved ones. He was moft eminently a type of Chrift in his prophetic office. The children of Ifrael, in the account given concerning them in the Book of God, prefent us with a perfect picture of what human nature is; their perverfenefs, ingratitude, and unbelief, and the Lord's dealings with them, ferve most fitly to be a memorial to us, of what we have been, of what we are, and of what the Lord hath been, and done, and is, to all his spiritual Ifrael. This chapter informs us of the Lord's refufing to go with the people of Ifrael, upon account of their fin com