( 260) Saviour to the world,then any Promife to Chrift givinghim a new Right. And as they concern mankind they can give no aCtual Right to pardon; to particular perfons ; though they may give mankind in general a Right to a fuccefsful Saviour. The reafon is before mentioned. ,out fuppOre it will be faid; that this Promife was not made to Chr ft as rneerly God, but as foreknown to be Incarnate, God- man. fo which I fay : i. The foreknowledge ofthe Incarnation makes not Chrift to be man, and God eeemsnot himfelf man till he is fo : therefore it makes not the fecond Perfon the fubjed of this newRight by this Promife or Covenant, till he be Incarnate incleed.2.Ifupon alithis it fhould hold good that Chrift himfelf did not before the Incarnation by any formal or proper Covenant or Promife receive himfelf any newRight, it would be much more evident,that no man before the Incarnation received any filch Right, by his Reception, and by that fame Covenant. Though for my part I think that a new Right did accrue to the pure God- head ; but rather on mans fall with Gods Promife to Redeem him by the Son, then from the meer eternal Decree, cal- led a Covenant between theFather and the Son. But this requires a ftri61.er enquiry: 2. To the fecond proof I fay , i. We ufe to diftinguifh be- tween the undertaking and accomplifhment. Divines ufe to fay , that uponmans fall,Chrift undertook fatisfacction, but it was in the fulnefs of time that he accomplithed it. How therefore he ac- complifhed it in the Undertaking, I do not well fee. z. Fut that he did perfeetly accomplifhwhat heundertook, a eafily grant, as the ground of my hope but that proves not a Right thence re- dounding to thehumane nature before it did exift. Laftly,t defire that none of this may be io underftood,as ifI de- nyed that which we commonly call the Covenant between theFa- ther and the Son, or the Right redounding to Chrift thereby Nay I think this Covenant or Law with the Mediator, to deferve a peculiar place in the body of Divinity, as of great moment,as I have elfewhere faid : But themain thing I infift on is, that when Chrift is a capable fubjea in his humanity of fuck Covenant- right, yet we are not thereby made the fubjeCt of it. 2. That which is merited and procured for any one thereuwo he far. Whom it is procured, certainly bath a Right.That which is chain- ed
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