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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Colos. ii. 6. .3 ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. [The Second Sermon on this Text.] An the illustration of the first head of metho'l, which was to speak of the believer's character and dignity as a receiver of Christ Jesus the Lord, we proposed to consider the act of faith, as it is a receiving of Christ; next the object of it, Christ; and then the capacity or respect under which this object is received, viz. as he is Christ Jesus the Lord. We have considered the first two, the act and object. It remains, Thirdly, That we consider the Capacities or respects, in which Christ is to be received, namely, as a Jesus, and a Lord; which will still farther clear the object There are three letters of Christ's name here that point him out beyond all other names in the world. I have formerly told you, that Christ is offered in these capacities, and I have just now spoke of the first letter of his name, viz. Christ, the anointed of God; and indeed it it is not sound faith that doh not take him as the .Sent of God, and qualified of God for the whole redemption work. But the other two letters of his name remain yet to be touched at. And you may consider them under this view as the two-fold capacities in which we arejxt receive Christ, namely, as Jesus the Lord. 1. As he is Jesus. 2. As he is the Lord. 1. As he is Jesus, that is, a Saviour. This is the first name given Christ in the New-Testament, Mat. i. 21. His name shall be called Jesus, because he shall save his people from their sins; and it is the best name that sinners can hear tell of; it is a name above all names, both for the glory of him that bears it, and the comfort of them that hear of it. Now, to receive Christ as a Jesus, is to receive him as a singularly mighty Saviour, that is a...