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Sermon4.
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ofHis conception, is in this
fac1~tm
ex muliere:
So the purity is inrhis, that it is bur
ex muli-·
1re,
and no more; Ofthe
Virgin
alone,
by
the power of the Ho
L Y
G
H
os
T
without
.
mixrureof'fle(hly genrration. By verruewhereof,no originallfoikwas in Him.
'Ittjl
borne
rTull.•., Hewas,andis;ftommeJilexpoftta,
Nolaw forrhejufl:, nolaw couldrouch Him. Andfo
we, never the betler, fot
{a{fum ex mttliere;
For ifooe be
in
debt and daoger ofthe
Latv,
to have a
Brother;
ofthe fame bloud,
made
oftheJtVne
1111tm4fi;
both (as wefay)
lying inovebelly,
willlitrleavaile him, except he will al–
focorne
ttnder the Law,
that is, become his Surety, and undertake for him. And fuch was
eoi.>.r
4 .
our efl:are.
f!.
s Debtors we were, by venue of
Chirographrem contra nos,
The
h<nd.writing
that was agamll us. WhJCh was our
Bond,
and we had forfcued tt. And
fo,faCltes ex mttli–
ere,
to us, without
fat1m fub lege,
would have beene to !inall putpofe.
No remedy therefore, Hee mull be new
made; madr
againe once more. And fo Hee
was, cafl: in aRr.wmould; and at His fecond
making, made under the Law;
Vndcr which if
He had not
beene made,
we had beene marred; even quite undone for ever, ifthis had not
beene done for us too. Therefore, H:e became bound for us alfo, enrred bond anew,
tooke on Him; not onely our
'1\.gtnre,
but our
Debt; our Nature,
and
Condition
both.
~ttm,
as men;
Condition,
as finfull men; exprelfed in the words following,
[Them that were
under the Law:]
for that was our
Condition.
There had indeed beene no
c~pacitie
in Him,
to doe this, if the former had not gone before,
faCium ex mtdiere;
ifHe had not beene,
as we,
made of a Woman:
But the formet was for thts;
<..Made afa Woman
He was, that
Hee might bee
made under the Law :
Being
ex muliere,
Hee might then become
Jt
1
b
Lege,
which before He could not, but then He might and did: And fo this Hill is the
fuller,
/
Cal.~.
3 •
And whendidHethis
~
When was
He made tender the Larri?
Even then, when He
was
Circumcifed.
Forthis doth
Saint
Pa:tl
te/lifie,
in the
third
ofthe next
Chapter; Behold, I Paul
teffijie untoyote, whofoever iuiretmtcifed, F.:tfus eft debitor tmiver[« Legu,
He becomes
a
deb–
tour to the whole Law. At His
Czrmmciftonthen,
HeemredBundanew with us· and in
fignethat fo He did, He fhed then a fewdr'ops ofHis bloud, whereby He figned d1e
Boml
(as it were) and gavethofe few drops then,
tanqt~am
arrham tmiverfifangttini< ejfondendi,
as a pledge or earnefl:, that
whentheft~lnelfeoftime
came,
He would be readieto fhed all the
refl:; as He did. For I would not have you mifl:ake, though wefpeake of this,
[fub Le,.e]
being under the Law, in rhe termes of
a
Debtfometimes:
yet the truth is, this
debt
ofo"'urs
was no
money debt;
we were not
fub lege pmmiaria,
but
Capitali:
and rhe
debt
ofa
Capital!
Law
is
De4th:
And under that, under
Death
He wenr, and that theworfl:dcath Law had
to inllicr, even the
Death of the Crolfe,
the mofl: bitter, reproachfLI!l, curfcd death ofthe
Crojfe.
So that upon rhe matter,
J.tt1tu
Jt•b
lege,
and
fat1us in Cmce,
come both
to
one; one
amounts to as much as the other. Well, this He did undertake for us at His
Cirmmcifton
.:
and thereforethen, and not till then, He had His name given Him, the Name of I • , u s a
Luke,.,
SA v r ouR. Forthen tooke He on Him the
obligation
to fave us. And looke what then
Col.>.t 4 .
at His
Cirwmcifion
Heundertooke, ar His PafrionHepaid even to the full: and having plid
it,
delevit Chirogr4ph11m,
cancelled the fenrence ofthe Law, that till then was ofrecord,and
ftood in full force againfl: us.
. Howbeit, all this wasbut one pan ofthe Law ; But He
Wa5
madefub
Leget~niverfa,
un.·
derrhewholeLaw; and that not by His
death
only, but by His
life
too. The one halfeof
the Law, ('bar is, the
Direc1iove
part,) Hewas
made
underthar, and farisfied it, by the
Inno·
cency
ofHis
Life,
without breaking fo much as one jot ortitle ofrhe Law: and fo anfwered
that part(asit might be the
Principal!.)
The other halfeofthe Law, which is the
Penaltie:
He was undert!ur part alfo, and fatisfied ir, by
fuffiringa
wrongfull
death,
no way defer-
. ved,or due by Him; andfoanfwered rhat(as it1111ghr be
theforftttttre.)
So He was
made
under
both, tmderthewhole Law.
Satisfying the
Principal!,
there was no realo1
H~
fhould be
Iyable to the
forfeiture,
and
penaltie :
ver,
under that
He was
aJ
fo. And
~11,
that the whole
Law
might bee farisfied fully, by His being under both parrs; andfono partofir light
upon us.
Thefe rwotherl;
('<.Made of aWoman,
•
U'vlade under the Law,)
yeef~e,
arerwofe.
vcrall
mdkings,
and both very requifite. Thcrefor<;, Either harh a ieverall
Er
aft,
they di–
vide