(259) Reply. I deny the Confequence. Its reafon is invalid. It may he 7mf1orn that God do it ; and yet you and I, or others, be no Weds of the ins, as receiving no Right thereby. If Right were received, it was only Chrift that received it, to whom the Pro- mife was made, and not we. He might receive a Right to Pardon us, and we receive no Right to Pardon. 1 defire alio fome clear proof of theAntecedent. That it is right and equal that theyAmid enjoy tholefruits, is ma. nifeft. For . It was the engagement of the Father, to the Son, upon bps undertaking to die for them, that they Amid fo do. Ifa. 53. ICJ, II, 12. 2, In that undertaking he accomplilhed all that Was of him required, Joh. 17. 4. Reply. Though it be the Confequence that I deny yet I fee not the Antecedent well proved For to the firft I fay, I. The undertaking of Cbrill. to dye for them, means either fome adion of the pure God-head, before the Incarnation or logic Adion at or after the Incarnation. If the firft, either it was from eternity, or fromAdams fall,or at the time when that Prophefie /fa.53.was given out. If the firft, then it was 1. before that Prophefie, and therefore that Prophefie did not give Chrift his Right upon his undertaking,at leaft not firft. 2. It was nothing but Gods Decree, or fome Eternal Immanent ad, which is confeffed by others to give no Right. If it were at Adams fall , 1. The Prophefie 53. was not then in being neither. 2 Chrift was not then Incarnate, and God couldnot make temporal Covenantswith himfelf. 1. It it but fpo- ken improperly,after the manner of men, that God makes a Co- venant with God, the Father with the fecond perfon in Trinity. 2. This which is fo called a Covenant,muft on the ground ofthem whom we oppofe,be acknowledged to be fromEternity, asbeing an Immanent Ad in God, which cannot oriri de novo.It is there- fore nothing but Gods Decree or fuch Immanent ads that is cal- led the Covenant between the Father and the Son, then inbeing; and this is confeft not to give newRight, (and to us i gives none at all.) 3. The fame holdeth, if they take it to begin at the time of that Prophetic, Ira 53. Chrift being then meerly God , and the God-head beinguncapable of formal Covenanting, and of receiving any Right thereby. 2. And the words in Ifa. 53.1o, I I. Seem rather a Prophefie, and a renewing of the Promife of a L 1 z Saviour !"'
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