The great mystery of godliness Jesus Christ our Lord God and man, and man with God; one in Jesus Christ our Lord. By Mr. Erbury minister of the word.

§. 2.

Q. VVHat worth do you find in Christ?

A. 1. The excellency of his person, being the onely begotten, beloved Son of God, the heire of all things, the head of his Church, Angels, Principalities and Powers, being subject unto him, Eph. 1. 21, 22. Col. 1. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Heb. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1 Pet. 3. 22.

2 The exceeding riches of his grace freely offered, and fully given unto me in the Gospel, Eph. 2. 7. & 3. 8. Isay 61. 1, &c.

3 The blessings that he brings, Acts 3. 26. Eph. 1. 3.

4 The graces that he gives, John 1. 14. 16.

O how happy is that man or woman that is made one with the Son of God!

(how few are they Christ knowes, Mat. 7. 14.) yet thrice happy is hee or shee that have him for their head and husband, who hath all power in his hands, all heavenly blessings to bestow upon them, all spirituall graces to give unto them, and an unsearchable ri∣ches of grace to endow them to eter∣nall glory.

Q. What is the grace of Christ?

A. It is an honourable, holy and happy condition that Christ hath cal∣led me unto by the Gospel; who be∣ing the second Adam, received my nature unto himselfe, restored it with himselfe into favour with God againe from whom I fell, and raised my faln nature into a higher favour and grace with God the Father then it was in the first Adam before his fall, Eph. 2. 5, 6.

1 He hath taken my nature separa∣ted from God, and hath now united it to the Godhead for ever, Joh. 1. 14. Heb. 2. 11, 14.

2 He hath sanctified my nature sin∣full in me, but perfectly holy in him,

Luke 1. 35. Joh. 17. 19. Heb. 7. 26.

3 He hath in my nature fulfilled the whole Law for me, which I could ne∣ver doe, Rom. 10. 5. & 8. 4.

4 Hee hath for my sin in my stead suffered the whole wrath of the Lord, the curse of the Law which I could ne∣ver suffer, Isa. 53. 4, 5. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Gal. 3. 13. 1 Pet. 2. 24.

5 He filled my nature in himselfe with all grace, God gave him not the Spirit by measure, but being made flesh, we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, John 1. 14. and 3. 34, 35.

6 He fulfilled all righteousnesse that was to be done or suffered in life or death by me, in my nature, in whom God was well pleased, Mat. 3. 15, 17. Mat. 12. 18.

7 He raignes in my nature glori∣fied above all in heaven, Ephes. 1. 20.