Š. JOH. vi. 38. I came down from Heaven, not to do mỹ own Will, but the Will of Him that fent me. 1. OBSERVATION. C HRIST came down from Heaven. 1. How does it appear, that Chrift was in Heaven, before He was on Earth? S. Joh. vi. 336 $1, 62. 1. It is plain, that Chrift had a real Exiftence long before He was born, S. Joh i. 15. and viii. 58. 2. That He was before the World, Hebr. i. 8. for He made the World, Hebr. i. 2, 8, 10. Coloff.i. 14, 15, 16. S. Joh. i. 1, 2. The Existence He had before, was purely Divine, Phil. ii. 6,7. Alt. xx. 28. The Divine Nature that Christ had, was communicated to Him from the Fa ther, S. Joh. vii. 29. v. 26. and xvi. 1 §. Hebr. i. 3. 5. Hence He is faid to have been in Heaven, by Reason of this His Divine Effence, which He always had from, and with the Father, S. Joh. vi. 62. 2. What are we to understand by His coming down from Heaven? His affuming our humane Nature, and in it converfing upon Earth, S. Joh. i: 14-1 Tim. iii. 16. II. As Chrift came from Heaven, fo He came not to do His own Will, but His that fent Him. S 1. Chrift's 1. Chrift's Will, as He is GOD, is no way different from the Father's 2. As Man, His Will was diftinct from the Father's, but ftill fubordinate to it, S. Luk. xxii. 42 and therefore, though He had a Will of His Own, as Man, yet He came not to fulfil that. 3. But our Saviour speaks not here of Himfelf, either as GOD, or Man, but as God-Man, as Mediator, as One fent from the Father, and therefore was oblig'd to do His Will, wherefore, he faith, not the Will of my Father, but the Will of Him that fent me. From hence it follows, 1. That GOD's Will only, is the Fountain of Man's Happiness and Salvation. For, 1. GOD made Man upright and happy, Ecclef. vii. 29. 2. Man made himself finful and miserable, Hof. xiii. 9. 3. But he cannot make himself happy aagain, Jer. x. 23. 4. And as Man cannot, fo none but GOD can. 1. None elfe could find out a Way to fave Man. 2. None else effect it, when found out, GOD had no other Motive, but His 1. Man himself could be no Motive, 2. Neither could the Hope of Glory be fo, GOD receiving nothing thereby,Job. xxii. 2, 3. Pfal. xvi. 2. 2. That 2. That Chrift came to accomplish this Will of GOD; which He did, 10 1. By acquainting us with what is necessary to be known or done, in order to our being faved, S. Joh. xiv. 2. 2. By giving us; in His Own Perfon, a per fect Example of Piety and Vertue, 1 S. Pet. ii. 21. S. Matt. xi. 30. 3. By enabling us fincerely to perform whatfoever is enjoin'd us, S. Joh. xv. 5. Phil. iv. 13. 4. By dying for us, S. Matt. xx. 28. 1 Tim. ii. 6. By continuing ftill to make Interceffion for us, Hebr. vii. 25. 1 S. Joh. ii. 1. USES. Wherefore, 1. Give GOD the Glory of your Salva tion. 2. Bless Him for all the Means of it. 1. For fending Chrift to die for us, S. Luki 2. ii. 14. His Spirit to live within us. 3. For vouchfafing us the Means of Grace. 3. Look up to Him, and truft in Him only for the accomplishing of your Salva tion. 1. By the Pardon of your Sins. 2. The Strengthening of your Graces, Phil. ii. 13. o And Power to perfevere in your Duty to your Lives End, S. Matt. X. 22. 4. Hence learn also of your Saviour, S 2 1. To 1. To fubmit your Wills to GOD's, 1 Sam. iii. 18. 2. To do the Will of Him that fent you hither. And it is His Will, 1. That you repent, At. xvii. 30. 2. That you turn from your Sins, Ezek. xviii. 30. and xxxiii. 11. 3. That you love the Lord, with all your Hearts, S. Matt. xxii. 37. 4. That you earnestly endeavour to work out your Salvation Phil. ii. 12. depending and trufting upon Chrift, for His Divine Aйftance. S. JOH. S. JOH. vi. 39. And this is the Father's Will which hath Sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lofe nothing, but Thould raise it up again at the last Day. I. DOCTRINE. C HRIST will lofe none of those that are given to Him, S. Joh. xvii. 12. 1. How doth GOD give us to Christ? 2. Humble and lowly in our own Eyes, Ifa. 4. Convincing us, that Chrift Jefus was fent 1. By the Miracles which He wrought, S. Joh. v. 20, 36. x. 37, 38. and vi. 14. 2. By the Purity and Innocency of His Life, Act. x. 38. 3. By the Excellency and Holiness of His Doctrine, S. Joh. vi. 36. and vii. 46, Hebr. iv. 12. S.Luk. xi. 27. 2. How fhall thofe not be loft? They fhall all have, 1. Their Sins pardon'd, 1 S. Joh. ii. 1, 2. S 3. 2. Their |