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become
t~nder
tl1e lmv,
fuffer that they fhould, take upon me their execution, upon
conditio"'
they mly be ouit. Ineffecrfomuch,at
HisPajl'ion,
He faid,
Si ergome qturiti>, (loan.
XVIII.
Yer[<
VI.)
I{yot~lay
holden me,
ifl mull:difcharge all,
Sine hos ahire, Let thofegoe thtir
rvay,
Let the
price
I pay be their
Redemption:
and fo it was. And fo we come to be
redeemedfrom
rmder the Latv.
And this is to be marked, that
them that were 11nder the Law,and Tfc that aretoreceive,are
but one,
one
and the
fame pcrjons
both: but being fo
redeemed,
then
}VC
are ourfelves. Till
then, the
Apoftle
fpeakes ofus, in the
thirdpt~Jon,(Themthat
tvereunder the Law,)
as offome
ftrangers,
as ofmen ofanother world, none ofour owne. But now being
redeemed,
the ityle
changeth. He fpeaketh of us, in thejirffperfon
~et
'l(r}s,
that
We:
For, tillnow, we were not
our owne, we were not our felves; but now we are: Till this, it was the
oldyeare
frill with
us ;
but
with the-new
yeare
c01hmeth our aew ell:ate,
.
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Being thus redeemed, we are got from
tmder the Law :
and
that is much. Till a pmie
Thac we
come to be
oncetmderit,
and fecletheweightofit, heihallneverunderll:andthisaright;
m~gh\rc-
but then hefhall. And ifany have beene
under it,
hee knowes what it is, and how great
a
~;i';;'p;i~n
bemftt
to be gorr.hcnce.
But
is this
all~
No, Hcleaves us not here; but to make the
mea/itre
of
ch,l-
compleat, yea, even to
flow over,
He gives us not over, when He had rid us out ofthis wret–
<lren.
ched ellate, till He have brought us to an ell:ate,
~s
good
as
He Himfelfe is in. Afrer our
Re-
demption,
we ll:ood but as
Prifoners inlarged;
that was all: But llill we were as
Jfrangers;
no
part nor portion in Go o,or His kingdome: nor no reafon,we fhould hopeforany.Hcnow
· goeth one ll:ep further, which is the highell: and furthell llep ofall, For further than it
he
cannot goe.
.
.
.
. ,
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.
That we mtght recewe the Adopt1on,
(that •s) from the ellate
ofPrifoners condemned,
bee
tranflatedinto theell:ate of
Children Adopted.
Of
Aaopteq:
for, of
'N_gturall,
we could'not:
That is His
peculiar
alone, and He therein only above us,
bur
elfc, fully to the joynrfi·uition.
ofall that He bath, which is fully as much as we could defit'e. And this is our
Fieri
out of
His
Faffum ex:muliere.
Wemad~theSonnesofGod,
asHetheSonneof
Man; Wemadepar-
·,rcc.
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takers
ofHis
Divine,
as He ofour
Humane nature.
Topurchafe our pardon, to free us from
~
s,m.7. death,and the Lawes fcnrence,this
feemed af mallthing
to Him :yet this is
Lex: hominu.Mans
' 9 ·
goodnelfegoeth no farther; and gracious is the
Prince
that cloth but fomuch. For,whoever
heard ofa
condemned
man,
Adopted
afterward; or that thought it not enough and enough, if
he did but efcape with his
life~
So farre then to exalt His boumy,to
thatfulneff'e;
as
Pardon,'
,Ef,y
9
.7. and
Adopl
both,
'l(gn
eft
Lex homini> h,ec;
No fuch meafure amon<>ll:men;
~tlm
Domini
Exercituum, The zeale ofthe LordofHo{ls,
1\'as to performethis:
The fulm.J!e of the God-head
dwelt inHim,
that brought this to patfe.
For,(to fpeake of
adopting:)
Wefee it daily; No father
adopts,
unldfe Hee be
orbe,'
havenochilde; or ifhe have one, for fome deepcd•flikehavecafl: him of. But Go o had
llcb.
I.J.
a
&onne, The hrightneff'e of His glory; The tme charac1er of Hi• Stehjfance.
And no dif–
M"·'7·'· pleafme there was: No,
In quo complacitum
'!fl,
In whbm He was abfolutely well pleafcd:
~icb.=·'
0
•
yet would Hee, by
adoption,
for all that,
bring many Sonnes to Glory.
Isnotthisfu/lon
His
part~-
We fee againe
1
no
Heire
will endure to heare of
Ado;tion,
nay, nor divide his Inheri–
tance, no, not with his
nattiYall Brethren.
Then, tlutthe
Hei~eofallthings,fhouldadmit
llcb.
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_joint Hdres
to the Kingdome Heewas borne to; and that admttthem not out offuch, as
}\om.8.t7 wereneareHim, but from fuch
aswereflrangers,
yea, fuch as had
beenecomkmned
men
tmdertheLaw;
Isnotthis
ft•llonHispart~
To
p11rcha[e
m,
and topurchafe{orm, both
at
once~
And notto
doe
thisfor us alone, but to
af!im
it to us: For, as his
Father,
(in this
Verfe) fends Him; So,(in the next Verfe,)
Hee
fends
_the SpiritofHisSonne,
togiveus:
foifin
of this our
v1doption:
whereby wee now call Htm, the Iewes
v1bba,
the Gen–
tiles
Pater,
as
children
all, and He
our Father,
which is thepriviledge ofthe
v1doption,
we:
here receive.
And now are we come to the
fi•lnejfe
indeed. Forthis
Adoption,
is the
fulmjfe
of our·
option: We cannot extend; vVe, our
wijl1;
or He, His
love andgoodneffe
any further, For,'
l!tc..j,.J,
\V~a~
can
~~aske,
or He give more, feeing in
givi~g
this, Hegiveth
alll;le
is worth
1
By
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1> S•
tlusnme,
It IS
full
sea:
All the
bankes
are
fiUed.
It
lS
now
as
J>~~:>ek~els
waters
that he
r~w
jlolll
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