z.oz Some Arß. for Input. of Ch. Right. Vindicated. C H AT. i0, Arg. 4. If there be no other principal End, Reafon , or Neceflity , why Chrift should fulfill the law ; but only that His obedience thereunto might be imputed to us for Righteoufnefs, in our Juftification, then is not the Jm- putationthereof to be denied. But the former is true. Ergo , &c. And fure , if Chrifts obedience to the law , was not neceffary in refpeét of Him felf, it muft have been performed upon the account of Beleevers ; and that principally and mainely for their Jullification and Salvation ; and therefore for this end , that it might be imputed unto them. Againft this, pag. 197. &c. He, Except. There are diverfe other ends , rearms and neceffitier to be affigned hereof. Ant. This is not the maine thing , that is here denied; nor will all this help our Adverfary, unlefs it can be shown, that thofe other Ends, which we deny not, are prejudicial unto, & inconfiftent with that , which we look upon, as the chiefe, & as peculiar ro Him, as Mediator & Surety, ftanding in the room of His people , who did mainely stand in need of this. Let us now fee the particular ends he toucheth. I. One reafon ( faith he ) might be toprocure the greater Authority dr deeper reverence to the Doftrine, which he taught, Matt. 7: 28. Anf, (t) The Soci- nians, upon the fame account , deny, that His death was any ,proper Satis- faartion for Beleevers : and if this be a weak argument in their mouth , it cannot be ftrong in the mouth of our prefent Oppofites. (2) This End is but fubordinat unto , and no way inconfittent with the principal End which we have mentioned. (3) Though Chrifts Miracles had a more direít ten- dency to procure this Reverence, than His Holy life; yet neither the one,' nor the other were peculiar to Him alone : for both the Miracles , wrought by others , fuch as Prophets and Apottles, and their, holy life, had a ten -' dency to procure Reverence and Beleefto their Datrine : And himfel£con- firmeth this in the following words , faying. Iris a truth ofgeneral acknowledg- ment, that theholinefr, uprightnefs and unblameablenefs of the lives of Teachers have a powerful Influence into the confciences ofMeñ, to render them more obfer- vant d9' awfull in their attention to the things , which are taught by them, citeing Mat. 2 r : 3 2,1oh. 5: 3 5. cT 8: 46. I Tim. 4: 12. 2 Tim. 3: 14. (4) We are to confider Chrift, as Mediator and Surety , in what He did , as well, as in what He Suffered , in His Rate of Humiliation : for to us a Childe was born , and to us a Son war given; He was made under the law for us , that he might redeem fuch , 45 atere under the law , that they might receive the Adoption cf Sones, Efai. 9:5. Gal. 4:4,5. 2. This attive obedience ofChrift, (faith he) wasferviceable to that fame great End, whereunto our righteoufnefr and obedience are fubfervient, viz, the glory of God , the advancement of His kingdom , rob. 8: 49. d5 7:13. Anf. And was not His death & Sufferings alto fubfervient unto -this great end? Will it therefore follow, that He died nor, to make S'atisfaEtion to juftice , for the finnes of His people ? And if this cannot follow, what ever Socinians ima- give; how shall it, or can it hence follow , that His obedience was not ro fa- tisfie the demands of the law, and to procure the reward to His people ? ,Is there any Inconfiftency betwixt His fulfilling the law , as Mediator and Sure- ty,
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