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infinite wiſdom, find out a way to ſave and deliver them out of this ſinful and miſerable eſtate, and to bring then into an eſtate of ſalvation; and that was by giving his only begotten Son to be their Redeemer; who, being God, and one with the Father, according to the determinate counſel of God, did, in the fulneſs of time, take upon him our nature, a true body and a reaſonable ſoul, and became man, being conceived by the Holy Ghoſt, born of the Virgin Mary, and called Jeſus.
7thly, I believe that this Jeſus was the true Meſſiah, promiſed to, and expected by the patriarchs, under the old Teſtament. That he lived a holy and ſinleſs life, and fulfilled all righteouſneſs, being made under the law, that he underwent the miſeries for ſin, a curſed death upon the croſs thereby ſatisfying divine juſtice for the ſins of men, and ſo reconciling us to God, and bringing in an everlaſting righteouſneſs. That he was buried, and that, having conquered death, he roſe again the third day; and having commiſſioned his apoſtles and miniſters to preach the goſpel to all the world, he aſcended into heaven, where he is, and continues to be God and man, our prevailing Interceſſor with the Father, and the glorious head over all things to the Church, in
