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without spot." (1 Pet. i. 18, 19.) He then which hath obtained for us remission of sins, he who through himself hath reconciled us to God, he who hath given himself as a ransom to redeem us, he who hath thus wrought out the way of salvation for us, must necessarily have a second and a far higher right unto the name of Jesus, unto the title of our Saviour.

Thirdly, Beside the promulging and procuring, there is yet a farther act, which is, conferring of salvation on us. All which we mentioned before was wrought by virtue of his death, and his appearance in the Holy of Holies: but we must still believe he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." (Heb. vii. 25.) For now being set down at the right hand of God, he hath received all power both in heaven and earth; and the end of this power which he hath received is, to confer salvation upon those which believe in him. For the Father gave the Son "this power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as he hath given him; " (John xvii. 2.) that he should raise our bodies out of the dust, and cause our corruptible to put on incorruption, and our mortal to put on immortality: and upon this power we are to expect salvation from him. For we must "look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, from heaven, who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." (Phil. iii. 20, 21.) And "unto them that thus look for him shall he appear the second time, without sin unto salvation." (Heb. ix. 28.) Being then we are all to endeavour that our "spirits may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus:" (1 Cor. v. 5.) being St. Peter hath taught us, that “ God hath exalted Christ with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour;" (Acts. v. 31.) being the conferring of that upon us which be promised to us, and obtained for us, is the reward of what he suffered therefore we must acknowledge that the actual giving of salvation to us is the ultimate and conclusive ground of the title Saviour.

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Thus by the virtue of his precious blood Christ hath obtained remission of our sins, by the power of his grace hath taken away the dominion of sin, in the life to come will free us from all possibility of sinning, and utterly abolish death, the wages of sin; wherefore well said the angel of the Lord, "Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins;" (Matt. i. 21.) well did Zacharias call him "a horn of salvation;" (Luke i. 69.) Simeon, "the salvation of God;" (Luke ii. 30.) St. Paul, "the Catpain and Author of eternal salvation;" (Heb. ii. 10. v. 9.) St. Peter, "a Prince and a Saviour." (Acts v. 31.) correspondent to those Judges of Israel, raised up by God himself to deliver his people from the hands of their enemies, and for that reason called saviours.

"In the time of their trouble (say the Levites), when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies." (Neh. ix. 27.)

The correspondency of Jesus unto those temporal saviours will best appear, if we consider it particularly in Joshua, who bare that salvation in his name, and approved it in his actions. For, as the son of Sirach saith, "Jesus the son of Nave was valiant in the wars, and was the successor of Moses in prophecies, who, according to his name, was made great for the saving of the elect of God." (Ecclus. xlvi. 1.) Although therefore Moses was truly and really "a ruler and deliverer," (Acts vii. 35.) which is the same with saviour; although the rest of the judges were also by their office rulers and deliverers, and therefore styled saviours, as expressly Othniel and Ehud are; yet Joshua, far more particularly and exactly than the rest, is represented as a type of our Jesus, and that typical singularity manifested in his name. For first, he it was alone, of all which passed out of Egypt, who was designed to lead the children of Israel into Canaan, the land of promise flowing with milk and honey. Which land as it was a type of the heaven of heavens, the inheritance of the saints, and eternal joys flowing from the right hand of God; so is the person which brought the Israelites into that place of rest a type of him who only can bring us into the presence of God, and there prepare our mansions for us, and assign them to us, as Joshua divided the land for an inheritance to the tribes. Besides, it is farther observable, not only what Joshua did, but what Moses could not do. The hand of Moses and Aaron brought them out of Egypt, but left them in the wilderness, and could not seat them in Canaan. Joshua, the successor, only could effect that in which Moses failed. Now nothing is more frequent in the phrase of the Holy Ghost, than to take Moses for the doctrine delivered, or the books written by him, that is, the Law;§

Ῥύστης, σωτὴς, λυτρωτής. And again : Σωτὴρ, ὁ Ζεὺς, ὁ ἐλευθέριος ἡ λυτρωτής. Hesych.

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+ Quantum attinet ad propheticum apparatum, nec geri nec dici aliquid possit insignius, quandoquidem res perducta est usque ad nominis expressionem.' S. August. contra Faust. 1. xvi. c. 19.

† Ον τρόπον ἐκεῖνος εἰσήγαγεν εἰς τὴν ἁγίαν γῆν τὸν λαὸν, οὐχὶ Μωσῆς, καὶ ὡς ἐκεῖνος ἐν πλήρῳ διένειμεν αὐτὴν τοῖς εἰσελθοῦσι μετ' αὐτοῦ· οὕτω καὶ Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστὸς τὴν διασπορὰν τοῦ λαοῦ ἐπιστρέψει, καὶ διαμεριεῖ τὴν ȧya yu indoro. Justin. Dial. cum Tryph. p. 340.

As Luke xvi. 29. 31. xxiv. 27. John v. 45, 46. Acts vi. 11. collated with the thirteenth verse. Acts xv. 21. xxi. 21. 2 Cor. iii. 15. Μωσέα νοητέον τὸν νόμον,

Ἰησοῦν τὸν ὁμώνυμον ἐκείνῳ σωτῆρα, ὥσπες τοίνυν κατὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν, Μωσῆ τετελευτη κότος, Ἰησοῦς τὸν λαὸν εἰς τὴν ἐπηγγελμένην εἰσήγαγε γῆν, οὕτω μετὰ τὸ τοῦ νόμου τέλος ὁ ἡμέτερος ἐπιφανεὶς Ἰησοῦς ἀνέωξε τῷ εὐσεβεῖ λαῷ τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν. Theodoret. in Jos. Proam. t. i. p. 194. Cum Successor Moysi destinaretur Auses filius Nave, transfertur certe de pristino nomine, et incipit vocari Jesus. Certe, inquis. Hanc prius dicimus figuram futuri fuisse. Nam quia Jesus Christus secundum populum, quod sumus nos, nationes in sæculi deserto commorantes antea, introducturus esset in terram repromissionis melle et lacte manantem, id est, in vitæ æternæ possessionem, qua nihil dulcius, idque non per Moysen, id est, non per legis disciplinam, sed per Jesum, id

from whence it followeth, that the death of Moses and the succession of Joshua presignified the continuance of the Law till Jesus came, "by whom all that believe are justified from all things, from which we could not be justified by the Law of Moses." (Acts xiii. 39.) "The Law and the prophets were until John: since that the kingdom of God is preached." (Luke xvi. 16.) Moses must die, that Joshua may succeed. "By the deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified (for by the Law is the knowledge of sin); but the righteousness of God without the Law is manifested, even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe." (Rom. iii. 20-22.) Moses indeed seems to have taken Joshua with him up into the mount: (Exod. xxiv. 13.) but if he did, sure it was to enter the cloud which covered the mount where the glory of the Lord abode: for without Jesus," in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," (Col. ii. 3.) there is no looking into the secrets of heaven, no approaching to the presence of God. The command of circumcision was not given unto Moses, but to Joshua; nor were the Israelites circumcised in the wilderness, under the conduct of Moses and Aaron, but in the land of Canaan, under their successor. For "at that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time." (Jos. v. 2.) Which speaketh +Jesus to be the true circumciser, the author of another circumcision than that of the flesh commanded by the Law, even "the circumcision of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter;" (Rom. ii. 29.) that which "is made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh," (Col. ii. 11.) which is therefore called "the circumcision of Christ." (Ibid.)

Thus if we look upon Joshua as the "minister of Moses," (Exod. xxiv. 13. Jos. i. 1.) he is even in that a type of Christ, the "minister of the circumcision for the truth of God," (Rom.

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xv. 8.) If we look on him as the successor of Moses, in that he representeth Jesus, inasmuch as "the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (John i. 17.) If we look on him as now judge and ruler of Israel, there is scarce an action which is not clearly predictive of our Saviour. He begins his office at the banks of Jordan,* where Christ is baptized, and enters upon the public exercise of his prophetical office. He chooseth there twelve men out of the people, to carry twelve stones over with them; as our Jesus thence began to choose his twelvet apostles, those foundation-stones in the Church of God, whose names are in the twelve foundations of the wall of the holy city, the new Jerusalem." (Rev. xxi. 14.) It hath been observed, that the saving Rahab the harlot alive, foretold what Jesus once should speak to the Jews, "Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you." (Matt. xxi. 31.) He said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon and the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." (Jos. x. 12, 13.) Which great miracle was not only wrought by the power of him whose name he bare, but did also signify § that, in the latter days, towards the setting of the sun, when the light of the world was tending unto a night of darkness," the Sun of righteousness should arise with healing in his wings," (Mal. iv. 2.) and, giving a check to the approaching night, become" the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." (John i. 9.)

But to pass by more particulars, Joshua smote the Amalekites, and subdued the Canaanites; by the first making way to enter the land, by the second giving possession of it. And Jesus our "Prince and Saviour," (Acts v. 31.) whose "kingdom was not of this world," (John xviii. 36.) in a spiritual manner goeth in and out before us against our spiritual enemies, subduing sin and Satan, and so opening and clearing our way to heaven; destroying the last enemy, death, so giving us possession of eternal life. Thus do we believe the man called

* Τύπον δὲ ἔφερεν αὐτοῦ ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ Ἰησοῦς κατὰ πολλά. ἀρξάμενος γὰρ ἄρχειν τοῦ λαοῦ ἤρξατο ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἰορδάνου· ὅθεν καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς βαπτισθεὶς ἤρξατο εὐαγγελίζεσθαι. S. Cyril. Hieros. Catech. 10.

+ St. Cyril addeth that he divided the land by twelve men : Δώδεκα δὲ διαιροῦντας τὴν κληρονομίαν καθίστησιν ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ υἱὸς, καὶ δώδεκα τοὺς ̓Αποστόλους κήρυκας τῆς ἀληθείας εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην ἀποστέλλει 'Insec. Ibid.

By the same St. Cyril: ПOTEJAσav Ρααβ τὴν πόρνην ἔσωσεν ὁ τυπικός· ὁ δὲ ἀλη Της φησιν, Ἰδοὺ οἱ τελῶναι καὶ αἱ πόρναι προάγουσιν ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ. lbid.

Stetit Sol, quia in Jesu et typum futuri agnoscebat et nomen. Neque enim

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Jesus to have fulfilled in the highest degree imaginable, all which was but typified in him who first bare the name, and in all the rest which succeeded in his office, and so to be the Saviour of the world; whom God hath raised up, a horn of salvation for us, in the house of his servant David, that we should be saved from our enemies, and the hands of all that hate us.” (Luke i. 69. 71.)

The necessity of the belief of this part of the Article is not only certain, but evident: because there is no end of faith without a Saviour, and no other name but this by which we can be saved, and no way to be saved by him but by believing in him. For "this is his commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and he that keepeth his commandment dwelleth in him and he in him." (1 John iii. 23, 24.) From him then, and from him alone, must we expect salvation, acknowledging and confessing freely there is nothing in ourselves which can effect or deserve it for us, nothing in any other creature which can promerit or procure it to us. For "there is but one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus." (1 Tim. ii. 5.) It is only "the beloved Son, in whom God is well pleased;" (Matt. iii. 17.) he is "clothed with a vesture dipped in blood;" (Rev. xix. 13.) he hath "trodden the wine-press alone." (Isa. lxiii. 3.) "We like sheep have gone astray, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." (Isa. liii. 6.) "By him God hath reconciled all things to himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven." (Col. i. 20.) By him alone is our salvation wrought: for his sake then only can we ask it, from him alone expect it.

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Secondly, This belief is necessary, that we may delight and rejoice in the name of Jesus, as that in which all our happiness is involved. At his nativity an angel from heaven thus taught the shepherds, the first witnesses of the blessed incarnation; Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." (Luke ii. 10, 11.) And what the angel delivered at present, that the prophet Isaiah, that old evangelist, foretold at distance. When "the people which walked in darkness should see a great light; when unto us a child should be born, unto us a son should be given: then should they joy before God, according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. (Isa. ix. 2. 6. 3.) When "God shall come with recompense, when he shall come and save us; then the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Sion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads.” (Isa. xxxv. 4. 10.)

σου, καὶ γράψον ἃ λέγει Κύριος. Ὅτι ἐκ ῥιζῶν ἐκκόψει πάντα τὸν οἶκον τοῦ ̓Αμαλήκ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπ ̓ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν. Οἱ δὲ

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(ἴσ. ἰδὲ πάλιν Ἰησοῦς οὐχ ὁ υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου, ἀλλ ̓ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, τύπῳ δὲ ἐν σαρκὶ φανεga9i. Barnaba Epist. c. 9. al. 12

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