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 even as a teacher, or phyſician, of a Society, two ways, I. In reſpect of office, as being called to, and inveſted with the office of ſaving, teaching, or curing of that Society. And thus one is ſaviour, teacher, or phyſician of that Society, before ever he ſave, teach, or cure any of them. In this reſpect, one may be called an official ſaviour, teacher, or phyſician. 2. In reſpect of the event and ſucceſs, as actually and eventually ſaving teaching, and healing. As the former ariſeth from an appointment put upon ſuch a one; this ariſeth from the work he manageth, in virtue of that appointment. In this reſpect, one may be called an actual and eventual ſaviour. Thus it is ſaid, Neh. ix. 17. 'And according to thy manifold mercies, thou gaveſt them ſaviours, who ſaved them out of the hands of their enemies.'—This premiſed, we ſay,

I. Our Lord Jeſus is the actual and eventual Saviour of the elect only, in whoſe room and ſtead only he died upon the croſs, according to the eternal compact paſſed between him and the Father, in the covenant of grace, otherwiſe called the covenant of redemption; for theſe are not two, but one and the ſame covenant. Thus the apoſtle calls him 'the Saviour of the body,' Eph. v. 23. that is, of the elect, who make up the body whereof, he was appointed the head from eternity; and in whoſe name he contracted with the Father in the eternal