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8 3. In his humiliation unto death, he is repreſented as the meek and patient Lamb, Acts viii. 32. 'He was led as a Lamb to the ſlaughter; and as a ſheep before his shearers is dumb, ſo he opened not his mouth; which are the words of the prophet, Iſa. liii. 7. Thus ſaith the Lord by the ſame prophet, ch. 1. 5. 6. He was not rebellious, neither turned away back; I gave my back to the ſmiter, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from ſhame and ſpitting.'

4. In his exaltation, or in the exalted eſtate, he is in ſcripture repreſented as a Lamb, particularly. Rev. v. 6. 'And I behold, and lo, in the midſt of the throne and in the midſt of the elders, ſtood a Lamb as it had been ſlain,' &c. This is the place that our preſent text hath a reference unto and therefore, concerning it you may obſerve the deſcription given of this Lamb.

(1.) As the Lamb that is in the midſt of the throne, of which more afterward. Only, you ſee, in his exalted eſtate at the Father's right hand, he is the Lamb; change of place hath not made him change his name, or nature: he took our human nature along with him; and he is still the meek and lowly Lamb, though he be upon the throne.

(2.) He is described by being a Lamb ſlain, Lamb as it had been ſlain. He appears with the marks of his ſufferings upon him, to ſhow that he interceeds in heaven in the virtue of his ſatisfaction because he entred the holy place by his own blood Heb. ix. 12. And the virtue of the ſacrifice he offered is always freſh, as if he were newly ſlain.

(3.) He is deſcribed as a Lamb having ſeven horns: pointing out the perfection of his power to execute all the will of God, and to conquer all enemies. This Lamb is the power of God.