and appointed Jeſus Chriſt his Son Saviour of the world: He has heaven's patent for this office; and whereſoever the goſpel comes, this his patent is intimated. Hereby a relation is conſtituted betwixt him and the world of ma kind; he is their Saviour, and they the objects of his adminiſtration: So that any of them all may come to him, without money or price, and be ſaved by him, as their own Saviour appointed them by the Father.
That Chriſt is thus the Saviour of the world, appears, if ye conſider,
i. Scripture-teſtimony, which is plain. Our text expreſsly calls him ſo: And ſo do the believing Samaritans profeſs their faith in him, John iv. 52. 'We have heard him ourſelves, and know that this is indeed the Chriſt the Saviour of the world.' You have the appointment of Heaven very plain thereanent, John iii. 19. 'God ſo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoſoever believeth in him ſhould not periſh, but have everlaſting life;' even as the brazen ſerpent, lifted up on the pole in the wilderneſs, was the ordinance of God for healing to the ſtung perſons of the whole camp of Iſrael. Hence Chriſt's ſalvation is called, 'the common ſalvation,' Jude ver. 3. a ſalvation which any of mankind ſinners may lay hold on. So the Saviour's birth is ſaid to be 'glad tidings for all people.' Luke ii. 10, 11. which it could not have been, if
