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 be conſtituted Saviour of the world, by office. And that was the ſufficiency of the merits of his death and ſufferings: For, though Chriſt died only in the room and ſtead of his elect, on the croſs ſuſtaining their perſons only according to that, John x. 15. 'I lay down my life for the ſheep;' yet the price paid for them, being of infinite worth, was ſufficient in itself to ſave the whole world. The bread provided for them; viz. a crucified Chriſt, was ſufficient to give life to, and feed, not them only, but the whole world of mankind; and, therefore, he might be appointed Saviour of the world, John vi. 33, 51. 'The bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. I am the living bread, which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he ſhall live for ever: And the bread that I will give is my fleſh, which I will give for the world.'

2. The reaſon why he actually was conſtituted Saviour of the world. Among, ſeveral reaſons that might be given for this, I ſhall only obſerve here this one, namely That I was put upon him as a piece of honour, the reward of his great ſervices in laying down his life for, and inſtead of, thoſe who were the objects of his Father's electing love, Iſa xlix. 6. 8. 'And he ſaid, It is a light thing that thou ſhouldeth be my ſervant, to raiſe up the tribes of Jacob, and