94 , Righttoufoefs ofLife. fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and ;i . '\W•· with all thy foul, and with all thy frrerigth, ·and · '.~:- :::: · with all thy mind ; and thy !Jeighbour as thyfelf/ ver. 28.·--Tbis do, and thou £halt live:' But it was a clemand they could never have anfwered, fince Adam had fquandered away their flock of ability, and left I them without firength. They might as alfoon- have reach'd up their hands to the fun in the firmament, fo far above them, as have attained to the perfetHon of obedience~ demanded of them by the Jaw. Where· fore, it was agreed, that Chrifi fhould in their name ebey the law in that perfectiqn, being made under the law, as they were under it, Gal. iv. 4, 5· that every action of his fhould bear not only a goodnefs of the matter, but of the manner too, and that in perfection: that love· to ·God ·and man fhould flame in his holy human foul, to the utmofi pitch required by the law; and fo that debt owing by his feed, might be cleared hy hil;n, acting as a publick man in their name. Lafily, ' That all this !hould be ·continued to the end, without the leafi failure in ·one jot of parts or · degrees of obedience.' This alfo was a condition of '· life, fiated in the firfi covenant. Gal. iii. IO. -' Curfed I i~ every one that, continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them/ But it was a demand, they could by no means anfwer; man's nature being fo vitiated by the fall, that if a thoufand hells were lying upon it, the befi on earth could not keep perfectly right one ho!Jr. Wherefore, it was agreed, that the fecond Adam fuould, in the name of thefe he reprefented, ' continue in all things . written··in the law, to do them,' even to the end : that . he fhould not fail in his begun courfe of obedienc~, but run to the end of the race fet before him: that from the womb to the grave, his heart and life .ihould !hine in perfection of holinefs : All which he did according.. ly fulfil, being obedient unto d~ath, Phil. ii..s. ARTICLE
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