and e`Nloral Work:. tufiice, Holinef , Wifdornand Mercy of Gad,. by which God could attain the ends of the Law and Government, better than by executing the Law on the world in itsdefirufíion, (as in general was before intimated. ) 53. The meafure of the fatisfa&ion made by Chrift was, that itwas a full falvo to Gods Jnfiice, and demonfiration of it, that he might give Pardon and Life to Sinners, upon the new terms of the Covenant of Grace, and give what héafter gave. 54 The matter of Chrift's meritorious Righteoufnefs, was his perfefl fulfilling the Lawgiven him as Mediator, or the performance of the Con- ditions of his mediatorial Covenant : Fromwhich refulted the Merit , fo the Duenef of all the Benefits which God had promifed in that Cove- nant as toChili, though moftly for men. This was the Righteoufnefs of Chrift for man, and hence arofehis Meritfor us.' 5 5 Thematter ofhis Law ofRedemption required of him was three- fold, z. That he fhould by habitual andaeltsalperfe& Holinefs fulfil the firfi Lawof Nature or InnocencywhichAdambroke; not juft as it obliged Adam, in every point, but as it was common to man; andbelonged to Chrift asMan. 2. That he fhould fulfil all the Law of Mofes given only to the Jews. 3. That he fhould. perform the great things peculiar to himfelf as Mediator; which weretobe asacrificefor sin, to dohis Mira- cles, to teach the Church as its Head : to Rule it, and to appointOrders and Officers for it, to rife again, to conquerSatan, Death andSin, 6.c. 56. That Chrift did not fulfil all the Lawin ourperfons, fo as that we did it in and by himfelf, and are thereby juflifted, is further evi- dent, in that he did not all the Duties which the Law bound us to per- form, and for not doing ofwhich we are truly Sinners. He did not doany of the proper Offices of a Husband toaWife., or of a Wife to a Husband ; ofa Father toChildren; of aServant, or a hired day -labourer to a Mailer; of a Magßrate (King , judge , &c.) to Subje&s: of a captain to Souldiers, or Souldiers to their Captain; of a Landlord to Tenants; of fuch'as havegreat riches towards the poor: ofthe lick., the . imprifoned, and abundance fuch like. Befides the perfonal Laws given to Adam in the Garden, to Noah, to Abraham, to David, to Solomon, the prophets; and fuchothers. Chrift did not thefe fame things for us; nor we fulfillednot thefe particular Laws in him. 57. The Difputes whether it be Chrift's Divine, his habitual, his attive, or hispave Righteoufnefs, that is made ours toour Juftification, feemeth to be but the Off-fpring of the error of theundue fenfe of Chrift's perfonatingor reprefenting us in hisRighteoufnefs And the par- celling out the ufes andeffe&s, ( that one is imputedto us infteadof ha- bitual Righteoufnefs, another inftead of a&ual, and the third pardon= eth our Sins,) is from the fame falfe fuppofition. (It'swell that they fuppofe not that his Divine Righteoufnefs is imputed to our deification.) But thecafe is plain, r. That ,Chrift's whole HumaneRighteoufnefs, habi- tual, attive andpave, are meritorious for us, (not as being the very. fame things, all which wefhould havedone, andfared, and had; as if we had, did and fuffered them our felves by one that had, did and fuf- fered them in our perfons (in a Law- fenfe.) But as being the parts of that one Righteoufnefs of Chrift asMediator, which confifteth in the full performance of the Lawof Redemption, or of his own Covenant with his Father, undertakenfor ourfakes. Having been, and done, and ferd what hepromifed, he is Righteous. a. And his Divine Righteoufnefs, by virtue of the hypoftatical Union, dignifeth his Humane to its meritoriousvalue. Q 58. By
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