C H A P. 13. Mr. Baxter's opinion a bout Imáut, examined. 19 t eating aEtually Phyfical and fupert atural influences of Spiritual life : Yet He was , as to all given to Him , aEtually á Political Head, or an Head in a Po- litical fenfe , that is, by God's Appointment , and His own voluntary un- dertaking , He obeyed & Suffered for them , & in their Head 3 paying their debt anfwering for all that the ju(tice & the Law did require of them , and fo purchafing all Grace & Glory for them , to be certainely bellowed in due time. In this refpe& , that mutt be denied , which he addeth ( n.12, ) Therefore they were not Chrifl's members Political when He obeyed d? dyed : for they may as well be faid, to have been then His members Political, as fo- me , not yet within the fold , but that were to be brought in , & were to hear His voice , were by Himfelf called His fheep job. Io: 16. Whence , I pray, come the Influences , whereby they are made to beleeve if not from Hiin, as their Political -head , or Surety -head, Handing ingaged for them ? But poffibly the ambiguous ufe of the word Political may occafione his mi- flake here. A Natural Head (faith he n. 14.) being but a part of a perfon , what it loth, the Perfon doth. But fling a contracted Head and all the members of leis Body con - tratled, or Politic!<, are every one a diflirril perfon , it followeth not, that each per- fon did really , or reputatively what tie head did. Nay , it is a good confequence, that if he did it , as an head , they did it not ( numerically) as head or members. AT. Palling the Impropriety of the expreflion contrattedhead , whereby, it is like , he nieanes a Conventional Head. 1 fay , Though a Conventional Head and all the members of that Body , be every one a diltinft perfon Pby- facally; Yet con(ldered as Inch , they are all but one perfon Politically & in Law- fenfe: & fo in Law-fenfe & Politically ( as all lawyers know , & even Men of Common fenfe can acknowl edge ) every diftin& Phyfical perfon is fuppofed to have done what their Political Head & Reprefentative bath do- ne, as filch. And though it be a good confequence , that if the Head did it,, as an Head, they in their in their Phyfical perfonr did it not : Yet it were a ridi- culous Confequence, to fay , They therefore, as Political Members of that Political conventional body , did it net viz Politically (not Phyfically, or nu- merically. Chrifl ( faith he n, is.) fuffered di' obeyed in t,ePerfon of the Mediator, be- tween God dc' Man , d? as a fubjeibb to the Law ofMediation. Anf Though He fuffered in the Phyfical Perfon of the Mediator; Yet becaufe Suffering & o- beying as a Mediator & Surety. He Suffered & obeyed , as a Political Head, & in a Political perfon. (a,) Though He was Subject to the Law of Media- tion; Yet by vernie of that fame Law of Mediation, He was. fubjed to the Law , under which we were , both as to its Duty & Penalty : for Suffering & obeying , as a Mediator & Surety , He , in Suffering & obeying, did pay out debt , for He came into our Law - place. Chri fl may be laid (rai th he n.16.) to fufer,in the perfon of a fanner, as it rim e:neth His own perfon, reputed c15' ufed as a fànner, by His perfecutorr;di' as He was one, who flood before God, as Undertaker ,to fuffer fQrmans fans. Anf. Seing He was one,who flood before God, as an Undertaker for (inners; & not only to fuffer for mans fin ,, did he not fuffer as a inner ( nor inherently, but) legally & juri_ Z 3 dically
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