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 A few things cencerning this blessed plant.

As to the first of these, namely, To premise a few things concerning this blessed plant.

I. I would have you to know what is here attributed and ascribed to Christ. It is not to be understood absolutely of him as God, but officially as Mediator and Redeemer. Considering him absolutely as God, this cannot be properly said of him, that he was raised up after he is God co-equal and co-essential with the Father, but viewing him as Mediator, he is a Plant, as it went, of God’s training.