_ - Conditiona,ry P11rt, &c.- . · i ij veiling through it, as • firangers, coming up from the , wildernefs , leaning on the beloyed,' Cant. viii. S , Laflly, Jf ye have a faving interefi in Chrifi's · ·death, ye are dead with him to the law alfo, ·Gal. · ii. 19. ' I through the law am dead to the law. Ver.; 20•. I arh crucified with Chrifi..' Our Lord Jefus took on our nature to fatis fy the law therei.tl ; the whole €ourfe of his life was a courfe of obedience' to it, for . life and falvation to us·; and he fu.ffered, to fatisfy it ' h1 what of that kind it had to demand, for tha t effetl• .' .Jn a word, he was born to the law, he liv'd to tht( · law, · and he died to the laW; namely, to clear ac~ compts with it; to fadsfy it fully, and get life and fal.va :ioil for us, \\ 1 ith its good leave. He was 'ma~e under the law, to redeem them that were under the law,! Gal. iv. 4, 5· And when once it fell upon him, it never left exacting of him; till it had got the utmoft . f<1nhing, ·and he was quite free with it, as dead to 'it, Rom. vii. 4· In tokez: whereof, he got up the bond, . blotted it out, yea, rent it in pieces, nailed it to his crofs., Col. ii. 14. Now Chri fi became dead, to it" - ~Yi?~ to it .in his death on the crofs : f? that. the ho~ . hnds and nghteoufnefs of the Man Chnfi, dtd there.; · after no more nm in the channel, in which it-had rurt be'rore, namely, from the womb to his grave : that is to fay, it was no more, and fhall be no mor:efor ever ; obedience was pe1 formed to the law for life and fa.l· vation ; thefe having been compleatly gained and fe .. cured, by the obedience he gave it from the womb td the grav~. lVherefore, my .brethren, if ye are his ,-ye a((o are bec6me dead to the law by the body ofChrijl_, which became dead tO' it on the crofs, Rom; vii. 4 · As ye will not be Libertines in your life an d praeti re, be ::– ing dead to fin and the world, whh Chrifi ; ·fo ye will not ,be Legatifls in your life and practice neither, be '"' ing 'alfo dead with 4im to the hrw,_as a covtnan t of works. Your obedience will run in anorh e·r chann e-l , than it Jid before your union with Chr ifi ; even 111 H 2 the
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