Excerpt from A Sermon on the Shepherd Feeding His Flock: And an Answer to a Quere on the Lord's Supper St. John in writing the Revelations of God through his son Jesus Christ to the churches, and to his ministering servants, to preach the Gospel of God the Father, in Jesus Christ his only beloved Son, to perishing sinners the way of life and salvation. Jesus the Saviour is preached to us, under various names and titles.1. He is called the Lord God.2. Angel of the Covenant.3. The Messenger of peace.4. The High Priest over the household of God.5. The shepherd of the sheep, who for the salvation and safety of the sheep given him by the Father lays down his own life for their redemption. John in this verse calls him the Lamb, to be sacrificed for the rest of the sheep; they being given him by the Father, and now bought with his life and blood. Besides giving his life for their life, his soul for their soul, and offering his body of human nature upon the Godhead the Altar, the altar sanctifying the gift; he made, and obtained eternal redemption for them. Heb. 9: 12, Jesus is viewed the Tree of life, whose shadow is delightful and the fruit sweet. Song 2: 3, to keep off the heat of the sun, (read context.) This tree was in the midst of the garden of Eden, and was the support of the life of our earthly parents while innocent, but no support of them in that happy place, after acts of disobedience which is sin. They being disobedient to God their Creator, that life of the soul withdraws from them, and the soul became dead in trespasses and sin. Eph 2: 1.A nd man and woman driven out of the garden, from the tree of life; under the sentence of death. (Now, the dispute between the Arminian and the Predestinarian, is on this question: did Adam get back to the tree of life or not? The Arminian says, that Adam was restored back to that tree: and all his children restored with him. The Predestinarian say, not so. But Christ the tree of life came to him in the cool of the day, and favoured him by putting on him a coat of skin the emblem of a robe of righteousness, in which Adam was restored to favour, but not his children. For his children issuing from his corrupted nature are born in the condemned state. Psal. 51: 5, 6, And each one of his posterity are born naked, and must be cloathed with the same coat, or the imputed righteousness, or perish.) Now for this to stand fast and remain sure to all the sheep, this tree of life and Lamb became man born of a virgin woman to be as we are, sin only excepted; that is, God man, God manifested in the flesh, God with us. To make an atoninf sacrifice, offered himself a ransom for the sheep. And obtained the lost life, and immortality, never more to die. Death hath no more dominion over him. Rom.6: 9.And Jesus savs to his chosen disciples, because I live, you shall live also. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.