defpifed the Shame. Whether the Holy Ghost fupported the Humanity of Chrift, with what was fignified by Salt, it is afcribed to Men Mat. v. 13. Ye are the Salt of the Earth; but if the Salt have loft its Savour, wherewith shall it * be falted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be caft out and trodden under foot of Men. Ye are the Light of the World. This must be underftood, Ye as my Reprefentatives have in you, and have the Distribution of the Salt, Light, &c. Mark ix. 50. Salt is good: but if Salt have loft its Saltnefs, wherewith will you feafon it? have Salt in your felves, and have Peace one with another. Luke xiv. 34. Salt is good, but if Salt have lost its Savour, wherewith fhall it be feafoned? It is neither fit for the Land nor yet for the Dungbill. Col. iv. 6. Let your Speech be always with Grace feafoned with Salt. Acts x. 43. Jer. xxxi. 31, 34. Mic. vii. 18. To him give all the Prophets witness, that through his Name, whofoever believeth in him, fhall receive Remiffion of Sins. xv. 9. The Holy Ghoft- purifying their Hearts by Faith. 1 Pet. i. 22. Seeing you have purified your Souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit Joh. iii. 3. And every Man that hath this Hope in him, purifies himself, even as he (Chrift) is pure. 1 Tim. iv. 12. Be an Example in Faith, in Purity. 2 Cor. iii. 8. How fhall

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*It be falted. Imperfonally, as it rains &c. if Salt lafe its Virtue, what fhall we feafon or falt with? or, what will there be to falt with? or is it, by what means will you reftore the Virtue to it again? How fhall it be made Salt again?

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not the Miniftration of the Spirit be rather glorious ?-12. feeing then we (Apoftles) have fuch Hope-Rom. viii. 24. For we are faved by Hope; but Hope that is feen is not Hope;

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hope for that we fee not, then do we with Patience wait for it. Heb. xi. 1. Now Faith is the Subfance (Ground or Confidence) of Things hoped for, the Evidence of Things not feen. Joh. iii. 16. For God fo loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son, that whofoever believeth in him, fhould not perish, but have everlasting Life. Mat. ix. 22. Thy Faith has made thee whole. Acts iii. 16. And his Name, through Faith in his Name, hath made this Man ftrong. xiv. g. The fame beard Paul Speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had Faith to be healed faidftand up-fo Heb. iv. 2. But the Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with Faith in them that heard it, (because they were not united by Faith to it) Jam. ii. 7. Even fo Faith, if it hath not Works, is dead being alone, ibid. ver. 26. as the Body without the Spirit (Breath) is dead, Faith without Works is dead alfo. This is spoken in Cafes where he who believes has Time to work, for the fingle Act of Faith qualifies inftantaneously, as in the Cafe of the Thief upon the Crofs. Luk. xix. 9. upon Zaccheus's Belief and Promife-Jefus faid unto him, this Day is Salvation come unto this Houfe. Prov. xi. 7. The Hope of unjust Men perifheth. Gal. v. 22. The Fruit of the Spirit is Faith. These prove that the Salt to be added by the Priest to the

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Sacrifice was Hope; that the Fire would not have purified the Manhood of Christ from the Sins laid upon his Head, if he had not had that or what was of the fame Nature, though more excellent in him; that he is only a Purifier with Salt and not without Salt, a Purifier of those who have Salt, Hope, that he cannot or will not heal a Disease, much less communicate Purification, except this Hope be in the Patient. (Therefore Num. xviii. 19. 2 Par. xiii. 5. na no must be a Purifier with Salt. Where there is no Sign, the Word must be tried through all the Cafes, and taken in that Case which can only make it Sense and Truth, fo a Priesthood of Faith, of Hope. While Berith was construed a Covenant it was impoffible to find any Word for Salt which would hold throughout. Amicitia Friendship bad fairest, but that cannot purify us because it is a Confequence of being purified. Others gueffed Wisdom, because of the Direction, let your Speech be feafoned with Salt. But 'tis more difficult to determine what Wisdom means than Salt: when they supposed it mixed with the Flesh of the Sacrifice, as it cures Meat, they made it a Symbol of Incorruption and Integrity. As Salt makes the Flesh which the Fire has roafted, well tafted, grateful, palatable and wholfom to Men, they faid it made the Sacrifice, as Meat, acceptable to God.) That to give this Hope is the Spirit's Part in Purification; that we can do nothing on our Part but take this Hope, but when it is taken, it will direct

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our Thoughts and Actions, (fo though we only take the Qualification, the Operation is afcribed to us) and indeed fo will Hope in being faved by the Law, by our own Righteousness &c. But thofe Hopes not only perish but are worse than Nothing, not fit for the Dunghill.

As the clean perfect Beaft was washed, its Blood shed and its Body burnt with Fire, bore the Pollutions of the People, typically atoned for their Crimes &c. fo Chrift, though he was clean and innocent, bore all our Sins, and by enduring the Wrath of God, purified us by Fire; and fhed the Water and Blood, his Life; redeemed our Lives and washes us by that Water and Blood.

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As Adam our old Father had corrupted us, fo Chrift our new Father has purified us; fo 1 Cor. xv. 22. As in Adam all die, even fo in Chrift Shall all be made alive.

As Chrift had performed all Sorts of Righteousness equal to the Obedience of all; as the Effence had humbled himself even to the Death of the Cross; as the Father had received Submiffion from him, which was equal to the Submiffion of all; as the Fire had punished Christ for our Sins to a Degree that was fufficient for the Sins of all, and was fatisfied and extinct; as the Sword had killed the mortal Body by the Nails of the Crofs; and by the Spear fhed the Water about his Heart; and, as we fay, his Heart's Blood, and fo loft its Edge; and his Body arose clean, fpiritual, a new Man, &c. fo those who have

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Hope in him (that which mixed with his Sufferings feparates Sin from them) are not liable to eternal Death, or any other Punishment for Sin in Purgatory, or &c. So every Believer is falted, made to hope, by the Purification of Christ by Fire *.

As Baptism or Purification takes Effect by Hope, fo hoping or trufting is put in the Cafe of Mofes, (while perhaps there were no Ceremonies performed) for Baptism, or vice ver

*What is faid here with Rom. xii. 1. Prefent your Bodies a living Sacrifice, Holy, (Separated from Pollution) acceptable unto God, fully explains Mar. ix. 49. Every one thall be falted with Fire and every Sacrifice (the Bodies of Chriftians) fhall be falted with falt; purified by Fire, the Wrath which Chrift fuffered, and Salt, Hope; which is infpired into them by the Holy Spirit; fo their Bodies a living Sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God. Rom. viii. 24. We are faved by Hope. 1 Cor. iii. 15. (confidered fully in the Book below.) He fhall be faved (refcued out of the Hands of the Adversary, or which is the fame Thing, cleanfed from his Sin) yet fo as (his Faith was right though his Works did not ftand the Teft, and this (his Faith) was to entitle to Pardon of Sin but not to the Rewards of one who had built good Works upon a right Faith. And this fo as means that he could not be faved otherwife than by Fire, and his Faith made amends for not undergoing that in his own Perfon, he fhall be faved, yet fo as by Fire as Fire cleanfes or refines Metals, fo is the Believer cleanfed by Fire: this he need not undergo in his own Perfon, because one underwent it for all, and Faith entitles every Man to the Benefit or Purity acquired by that fiery Trial; and then it is the fame Thing as if he had undergone it himself; fo that no Man can be faved i. e. cleanfed but by Fire, or, otherwife than by Fire, which his Surety underwent and the Effects of which Faith poffeffes him of. 1 Pet, i. 7. That the Trial of your Faith, (being much more precious than Gold that perisheth) though it be tried (the Trial being made) by Fire, might be found unto Praise &c.

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