61 . Chtifl the Suretj" the law. And, forafmuch as his 'being in the farm . ofGod,' denotes his being very God, having the very nature and effence of God ; for the form is that which dfentially difiinguilheth thingsi and makes a thing to be precifely what it is; and this fotm is, according to the Ap<Dfile; the foundation of his equality with God his Father, which nothing, really different from .the Divine eifence, ·can be: therefore his taking upon him the fo,tm of a bpnd ·fervant, mufi necefi.'arily de– note his beaoming really a bond · fervant, as really as ever man did, who was brought into bondage, or a fiate of i(:!rvitude. , The Father folertmly 'Jecla~es the transferring ot our fi:tte of fervitude on Chriil:, fpeaking to him un– der the name of !frael, as· was cleared before, Ifao~ ·xlix. 3• ' Thou-art my f<i:rvant, 0 !frael, in whom I will be glori~ed.' As if the Fath~r had faid to him, Son, be it known, 'tis agreed t11~t I take T~ee in the room imd place of !frael, the fpiritual feed, to per.. form the fervice due in virtue of the broken original contraCl: : Thou in their fiead att my ftryant ; ' my bond fervant (as the word is nmdred, Lev. xxv. 39· ' and elfewhere): It's from thy hand I'll look for that ·.fervice. Agreeable hereunto is the account we have of our redemption fr~m the curfe; Gal. iii. 13. name– ly, that it was by Jefus Ghrifi ' being- made a. curfo for us : For it is written, Curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree ;' the which Chrifi did, dying on a ' crofs, the capital puniiliment ofbond-men, . Behold the , folemnity of the tranfH1tion, Pfal~ ~I. 6~ ' Sacrifice and offering thou ,didfi not defire, · mine ears hafl: thou .opened.' The word here rendered o– pened; properly 'JignHies digged, as may be feen in the margin of our Bibles : and fo the words are, ' mine ears thou diggedfi thorow ;' that is, horedj}; as it is exprefi in our paraphrafe of the pfalms in znetreJ ' mine ears thou boredfi.' · This has a manifeft vi'ew io that,_c.oncenling the bond-ferv.ant; Exod. xxi. 6. ' Then
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