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 even as a teacher, or phyſician, of a two ways I In reſpect of office as  called to and inveſted with the office of  teaching or curing of that. And this one is ſaviour teacher or phyſician of that ſociety, before ever he teach, or cure any of them. In this 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 manageth, in virtue of that appointment. this reſpect one may be called an actual and eventual ſaviour. Thus it is ſaid, Neh ix 27. '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