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 of the world.' And herein we may

The goſpel, or glad tidings itſelf, viz. 'the Father ſent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.' Here is glad news to world, Chriſt's miſſion. The promiſe this miſſion was made to fallen Adam in : Believers, under the old  lived and died in the faith of it. But apoſtles teſtified it as a thing performed; 'The Father ſent' or, 'hath sent the Son.' The party ſent is the Son of God, our Lord  Chriſt; no other was fit for this miſſion. The party ſending, from whom he his commiſſion, was the Father, the firſt Perſon of the glorious Trinity. None of a dignity could ſend one of his digdity. The character in which he was ſent, is 'the Son, Saviour of the world.' So the words are without any ſuppliment; of which there no need here. So Chriſt is ſaid to have come a teacher from God. John iii. 2. i. e. in the character of a divine teacher. As one is ſent ambaſſador to ſuch a court, that is, conſtituted by his prince ambaſſador to that court, and accordingly ſent away in that character: ſo Chriſt was conſtituted, nominated, and appointed by his Father Saviour of the world, and ſo ſent away into the world in that character. The world is the world of mankind indefinitely, ruined by Adam's ſin. John iii, 16. 'God ſo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten