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DISCOURSE III. THE CAPTAIN OF SALVATION FITTED BY HIS SUFFERINGS FOR BRINGING MANY SONS TO GLORY. Heb. ii. 10. —To make the Captain of their salvation perfett through sufferings. JL HAT the salvation of sinners is a work of great magnitude, may be inferred from the vast preparation which is made for carrying it on ; unless we charge God with making an ostentatious parade of operation calculated to answer no good end. But this would be to arraign the wisdom of Jehovah. The Son of God alone was found adequate to this work; but such was the nature of it, and such the manner in which it was to be conducted, that he must proceed by various preparatory steps, leading to the successful execution of it. Though possessed of consummate wisdom, adequate to direct him infallibly in every part of the work; and of power sufficient to produce any change on the sinner, and to crush any opposition that might be made to him, yet something is necessary prior to this. A course of the most perfect obedience must be gone through, and a series of extreme suffering, terminating in death, must be undergone, ere he can save one sinner. The nature of these sufferings has been considered, which leads to the discussion of the III. Head of doctrine, which is to show how the Captain of salvation is, by his sufferings, perfeanded or fitted for bringing many sons to glory. 1. As a preliminary, I observe, that the assertion does not imply any personal or natural imperfection in the Mediator. As the Son of God, he is possessed of all divine perfections, " for' in him dwells all the ful- nrss of the God-head bodily." What the Scriptures ascribe to him separately, he sums up and claims to himself in few words, "Ail tniiigs that the Father hath are mine." John xvi. 1.5. Without such perfection he...
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