C H A P. 15. Some Arg. vindicated Jro n Mr. Baxter's exceptions. 21'3 in gratitude and in love to God, and to do good , and the like. Though I think the objedtion is not fo favourably propofed , as it might be , Icing that end to 1Z,edeem should not here be mentioned ; for thongh it was the end ofChritt's coming into our Law-place , yet it cannot befaid to be properly the end of that Obedience , he performed , while he was in our Law- place, proximely. Let us fee how ever, w hat he faith to ir. i. Hence ( faith he ) itcicarly follott7eth,th4t Chrifl obeyed not in each of our perfns legally , but in the perfon ofa Mediator, feing His due obedience ¿ ours have Jo different ends , and a diffèrent formal relation ( His being a conformity proximatly to the Law , given Him , as Mediator ) that they are nit fo much as of the fame fpecies , much 'err numerically the fame. Aaf. I think rather, that hence it clearly followeth,, thaí Chrift did indeed obey the;Law , as it was the Condition of the Cove- nant of works , in each of the Elect's perfon legally : for though His Obe- dience and ours now , after faith , have far different ends ; yet His Obe- dience , as Obedience to the Law of works , had the fame end that our Obedience should have had by that Law , vi.t. the fulfilling of the fame , in order to the obtaining ()fa Right to Life ; and if not , to lofe all. The Law , given Him as Mediator , taken in its latitude, is not the Law , whereof the obje &ion fpeaketh ; for it fpeaketh of the Law of works, under which A-- darn was , and all his potterity in him , and under the breach of which we lay. And Chrift's obeying , in the perfon of a mediator, doth not hinder His reprefenting His own legally ; for He was fuch a Mediator , as was a Sponfor and Surety , and came in our Law - place, and undertook our debt.. Therefore, though Chria's Obedience to the fpecial Law , given to Him , as Mediator , was not of the the fame kind , with the !obedience, required of us ; yet the obedience He performed to the Moral Law , in our place & Read ; and as our Surety and Sponfor, was the very fame debt, we were oweing. He faith 2. Either this Obedience of 'Gratitude a ir a duty , or not ; if not , is not truely obedience, nor the omiffion fn If yea , then that duty was made a du- ty by form Law : And if by a Law, we are now bound to obey, in gratitude, (or for what ends fo ever ) either we do all that we are fo bound to do, or not ;; if we do it ( or any of it ) then to fay , that we did it twice , once by Chrifi , dT Once by ourfelver, is to fay, that we were bound to do it twice, ¿c then Cbrifl did not all, that we were bound to , but half. Anf. We diftinguish betwixt thejaw,. as the Conditionof the Covenant of works; and as a Rule of Obedience Aduty may be duty now, as required by the Law {till in force, as to its commanding regulating power, and yet not be a part of the Còndition of the Covenant of works, wherein we had failed , which Chrift fulfilled , by giving perfect obedience to that Law , as the Condition of Life, to which we neither did , nor could give perfeht Obedience : and all our Obedience now, though commanded by the fame Law, is no fulfilling in whole, or in part, of the Condition of the Covenant of works ;' and therefòre can, not be laid thus to be done twice, but once, and that by Chrift alone. H.ò. addeth, But what man is he, that finneth not ? Therefore, feing it is certain,, that no man Both all , tbat be it bound to do by the Gofpei (.in the time dT mea furor: D d 3 of b.
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