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devil ſinneth from the beginning. For this purpoſe, the Son of man was manifeſted, that he might deſtroy the works of the devil.' It was an inveterate diſeaſe, the cure of which was quite beyond the reach of any mere creature, as far as the raiſing of the dead is; ſo he was appointed Saviour in the caſe. Pſalm lxxxix. 16. 'I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one choſen out of the people.'
2. It is to ſave ſinners from miſery, to free them from deſtruction. Hoſea xiii. 9. 'O Iſrael thou haſt deſtroyed thyſelf, but in me is thine help.' They are by ſin made objects of wrath, laid under the curſe of the broken law, liable to revenging wrath for time and for eternity: He is appointed to ſave them from all this, upon their coming to him, and employing him for that purpoſe, Iſaiah xxxii. 2. 'And a man ſhall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempeſt; as rivers of waters in a dry place, as the ſhadow of a great rock in a weary land.' Sin let in a deluge of miſeries on the world, which flow about the ſinner continually in greater or leſſer meaſure: He is a Saviour to dry it up for them. I Cor. i, 30. 'But of him are ye in Chriſt Jeſus, who of God is made unto us wiſdom, and righteouſneſs, and ſanctification, and redemption.'
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