496 Book. IV. L1oking U11tO :fefUJ • Gal.4. 4, :Cor. 5. 2.1. Luke 2., :r. to Chrift hy turning to God firft. 0 remember this ! let our faith in the more direct, and immediate exercife ofit be pitcht up. · on Chrift as God in the fiefh. · 3. Faith muft go to Chrift as God in the f!efh, made under the law: and hence it is that the Apo!:He joynes thefe together, God fent hu S on made of a woman, made under t-he law; ifChrift had been out of the compalfe of the law, his being incarnate, arul made of a woman had done us no good Suppofe one in debt and danger of the law, to have a brother of the fame fldlt and blood, of the fame Father and Mother, wbat will this availe, if that fame brother will not come under the law (i.), become his furety, and undertake for him ? it is our cafe, we are debtors to God, and there is an hund-Jvritvr~g 11gainjf m, and contrary tom· here ts a bond of the law wh ich we have forfeited; now what would ChriU availe, if he had not come under the law? if he had not been our fu rety, and undertook for us? our faith therefore mult go to Chrift as m.;deunder the lav, not only t3king our nature upon him, but our debt alfo, our nat u r~ a ~ men, and our debt as finful men; he h11th mt~de hirnft!fi' to bet orr·~ {t ,j (or us whokpew no fin , (i.) he made him to be bam1kd as a l•nner for us under the law ; though he knew no f.n on lm p>trt but continued in all things written in the book of rhe law to do them. Hfaith be inq:uifitive, when was Chrifi made under the law? I anfwer, even then when he was circumcifed; thus P.utl proteUs. I tejfifie to overJman thilt he that i-s circumcifed, is a debtor todo the whole !ll'w. Chrift at his circumcifion entred iP.to bond with us, and updertook for us; and thtTeforethen, and not til i then he had his name given him, 'fe[m, a Saviour; and from that time he wasa·debtor to do the wholel,1w; not only to fuffer, but alfo to do, for he both fatisfied thecurfe, and fullilled ,hecomrnandments. · 0 remember this! as Chrift, and asChrift: in the fldh, fo Chrift in the fle1h made under tbe law, is principally to ·be in the eye of our faith; if we put all together, our firft view of faith is to look_ on Chrift God in the fl.efh, mt~de under the luw. · _ _ 4 Faith going to Chrift as God in the fiefh, and as made under tbe law, it is prir.cipally to look to the end and meaning <>f Chr.ift , as being God in the fle£h , and as fulfilling the law. Now
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